Principal AI Architect

Ecolab Digital is seeking a commercial solutions focused Principal AI Architect to scale the value of AI / DS intelligence to deliver unique offerings for customers via digital software solutions with embedded this role you will collaborate with the AI development teams E2E solution architects and technical engineering owners to design AI architecture within the larger solution architecture. You will own the strategic advancement of the AI tech stack and understand industry changes and opportunities to maximize solution design. You will partner with AI development teams to review adherence and navigate new solution challenges through the development process. This role is aligned with a dynamic team at the forefront of technological innovation creating cutting-edge AI for intelligent solutions that transform how our customers operate for enhanced efficiency and sustainability.

Position Details

• Location: The desired location for this role is either Naperville IL or St. Paul MN with a hybrid schedule.
• Travel: Up to 10% of the time.

What you will do

• Define enterprise architecture across GenAI agentic workflows ML platforms and data engineering ecosystems.
• Serve as a technical voice in leadership discussions influencing strategy and navigating organizational challenges.
• Architect and implement scalable AI solutions including agentic ecosystems advanced pipelines and AI model integrations with larger end-to-end SAAS solutions.
• Evaluate and understand technologies that meet needs in support of cost optimized multi-cloud solutions including aspects of Databricks Snowflake Azure and beyond.
• Elevate governance standards covering security compliance and responsible AI/data use.
• Mentor engineering teams fostering autonomy technical excellence and architectural discipline.
• Evaluate emerging AI/data tooling and integrate reusable architectural patterns to accelerate delivery.
• Ensure alignment of architecture with business goals scalability requirements and innovation roadmaps.
• Provide clear consistent communication and presentation to various stakeholders related to AI architecture strategy and implementation to drive alignment eduation and impact-based decisions
• Work within an agile global resource model planning for and delivering against initiatives

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field and 10 years of experience in progressive architecture and AI/DS design and engineering
• Enterprise Architecture: AI data ecosystem design multi-agent orchestration (LangChain LangGraph Haystack) enterprise-wide AI/ML standards.
• AI/ML Platforms: LLM APIs (OpenAI Hugging Face Anthropic MosaicML) transformer architectures RAG workflows LLMOps frameworks (prompt lifecycle monitoring).
• LLMOps frameworks (prompt lifecycle monitoring context engineering harness engineering).
• Data & Cloud Infrastructure: Databricks (Delta Lake Spark SQL PySpark MLflow) Snowflake (enterprise-scale warehousing) Azure (AKS Synapse EventHub Logic Apps).
• Programming & Integration: Python (Transformers LangChain PyTorch) API integration (REST GraphQL gRPC) microservices/event-driven systems.
• Governance & Security: Responsible AI frameworks privacy/compliance OAuth2 JWT TLS RBAC.
• DevOps & Delivery: CI/CD (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions) containerization (Docker Kubernetes) observability (Prometheus Grafana ELK stack).
• Leadership & Strategy: Influence technical strategy mentor engineers simplify complex concepts for diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment embracing change and utilizing proven reasoning in balancing practical business needs and architectural rigor
• No immigration sponsorship is available for this role at this time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to multi-cloud architectures (Azure AWS GCP).
• Strong understanding of token-efficient AI consumption with an ability to surface FinOps tradeoffs
• Experience with data mesh and federated AI systems.
• Familiarity with knowledge graphs and semantic search.
• Hands-on with MLOps orchestration tools (Kubeflow MLflow Vertex AI).
• Understanding of edge AI deployment and IoT integration.
• Experience in enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF Zachman).
• Knowledge of AI ethics frameworks and regulatory compliance (EU AI Act ISO standards).
• Demonstrated interconnected disciplinary knowledge of digital solution development

A trusted partner at nearly three million commercial customer locations Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. With annual sales of $13 billion and more than 45000 associates Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions data-driven insights and personalized service to advance food safety maintain clean and safe environments optimize water and energy use and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food healthcare hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.

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