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Senior Architect, GCP & AI Platform Architect
Job Location:
Job Location:
Bolingbrook, IL - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 160000 - 190000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
29 September 2026 (24 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
20 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Senior Architect GCP & AI Platform Architect
Job Number: 26-01060
Job Number: 26-01060
Use your skills where innovative technology solutions begin. ECLARO is looking for a Senior Architect GCP & AI Platform Architect for our client in Bolingbrook IL.
ECLAROs client is a leading technology solutions provider collaborating with customers to manage their needs and achieve success in their business goals. If youre up to the challenge then take a chance at this rewarding opportunity!
Position Overview:
- The Senior Architect GCP & AI Platform Architect is a senior individual-contributor architecture role on the AI Architecture pod owning the scale lane for Clients core AI platforms.
- This role architects and evolves platform capabilities for model serving infrastructure fit Model Gateway and tool integration MLOps observability cost-per-unit economics and peak-load readiness.
- It collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders and peer Senior architects in Design and Stability and sets platform architecture direction so systems are scalable performant reliable and cost-efficient.
- At least fifty percent of this role is hands-on architecture work including platform design infrastructure decisions MLOps patterns reviews and standards authorship.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Platform Leadership:
- Translate enterprise AI strategy defined by the AI Architect Principal Enterprise Architecture Enterprise AI Tech Leaders (AI Engineering DS / ML Engineering AI Emerging Tech) AI Product Teams into actionable platform roadmaps and technical priorities.
- Partner with data cloud security and infrastructure teams to define the end-to-end AI architecture framework including compute model lifecycle and deployment strategies.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform enhancements to improve model performance scalability and sustainability.
- Define and deliver AI / ML / Agentic operations strategy including tool suite standards and technology / capability roadmap.
- Establish POV on key evaluations including but not limited to buy v. build platform assessments tool comparisons cost / performance optimizations
- Drive the technical strategy for the platform balancing short-term needs with long-term scalability and reliability.
- Design implement and scale cloud-based infrastructures (GCP and Databricks) to support internal and external applications.
- Oversee platform architecture decisions ensuring that the platform is robust efficient and capable of supporting growing business needs.
- Architecture Design and Governance:
- Lead the design of core AIML platform componentsdata pipelines model training and inference engines orchestration workflows and monitoring frameworks.
- Design for continuous training pipelines and promote automation capabilities where possible.
- Establish architectural best practices patterns and standards for AI / ML development and deployment.
- Oversee design reviews and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture and regulatory requirements.
- Design and build platform to meet AI Governance requirements (including application of controls and measurement of controls). Ensure observability requirements can be met.
- Serve as a standing member of the Architecture Review Board for the Scale lane advising on infrastructure fit serving readiness and cost-per-unit implications.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with product data science engineering and security teams to operationalize AI / ML capabilities across the enterprise.
- Partner with the AI Architect Principal and AI Solution Architects to align agentic platform evolution with organizational priorities and technology roadmaps.
- Collaborate with security and operations teams to ensure the platform is secure compliant and maintains high uptime and reliability.
- Engage with leadership to align technical initiatives with organizational objectives.
- Architecture Mentorship and Technical Enablement:
- Mentor AI Architects AI engineers and AI Ops engineers through design reviews platform guidance and technical coaching raising platform quality through influence and reusable patterns.
- Foster a high-performance culture emphasizing innovation collaboration and agile delivery.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership leading by example in designing and building robust scalable systems.
- Drive high standards of code quality testing and engineering practices.
- Advocate for platform engineering best practices ensuring systems are maintainable extensible and documented.
- Team Leadership and Talent Development:
- Manage and mentor a team of AI engineers AI architects and AI Ops engineers.
- Foster a high-performance culture emphasizing innovation collaboration and agile delivery.
- Support career development technical upskilling and diversity in AI technology roles specifically those aligned into the Architecture space. Mentor and guide junior team members.
- Conduct regular performance reviews provide career development guidance and support team members growth and skill development.
- Own hiring onboarding and team-building activities to ensure the team has the right talent and skills.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership leading by example in designing and building robust scalable systems.
- Drive high standards of code quality testing and engineering practices.
- Advocate for platform engineering best practices ensuring systems are maintainable extensible and documented.
- Operational Excellence:
- Oversee platform scalability reliability and cost optimization across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Implement observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify performance or security issues.
- Ensure platform compliance with responsible AI data privacy and ethical ML principles.
- Build and develop architecture audit process and execute.
- Identify opportunities for automation process improvements and tooling that enhance platform reliability and efficiency.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry best practices and incorporate relevant trends into the platform strategy.
- Lead incident response and post-mortem reviews to continuously improve platform resilience.
- Platform Performance & Reliability:
- Define implement and monitor key platform performance metrics including system uptime latency and resource utilization.
- Ensure the platform is scalable and cost-efficient optimizing for performance and operational cost efficiency.
- Lead efforts to identify troubleshoot and resolve platform performance issues or outages.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science a related field or applicable work experience.
- 10 years of experience in software development or architecture; minimum of 3 years of individual-contributor technical leadership in platform or architecture roles.
- Deep knowledge of AI / ML ecosystems.
- Experience designing MLOps pipelines and AI Ops frameworks at enterprise scale.
- Strong expertise in GCP and cloud-native architecture with hands-on knowledge of GCP services and architecture patterns supporting AI / ML platforms MLOps frameworks and CI / CD practices.
- Experience with multi-agent architecture concepts: orchestration patterns tool / skill registry memory and state management and agent observability.
- Experience setting technical standards and coordinating across distributed engineering teams.
- Proven ability to lead platform architecture across cross-functional engineering partners and deliver enterprise-scale AI platform solutions.
- Comfortable navigating new Client technology solutions and working through ambiguity to deliver in evolving domains.
- Familiarity with security and compliance standards for platform operations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
- Excellent communication program coordination and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Comfortable with presenting up to senior leadership (VP level); able to present technical concepts to non-technical and executive levels.
Salary: $160000.00 - $190000.00 / Year
If interested you may contact:
Tim Cusick
Tim Cusick LinkedIn
Equal Opportunity Employer: ECLARO values diversity and does not discriminate based on Race Color Religion Sex Sexual Orientation National Origin Age Genetic Information Disability Protected Veteran Status or any other legally protected group status in compliance with all applicable laws.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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