Principal Applied AI Solutions Architect

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Principal AI/ML architect leading enterprise data and machine-learning solutions for phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy. Designing production architectures, deployments, monitoring, and client delivery across strategic engagements.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the architecture, implementation, and lifecycle management of AI/ML applications that deliver measurable business value
  • Own strategic AI/ML projects from vision and solution design through deployment and ongoing optimization
  • Drive end-to-end solution design and delivery of AI/ML and data solutions for strategic client accounts
  • Ensure reliable model deployment, retraining, monitoring, and production operations
  • Translate business and data science requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient AI/ML architectures
  • Define environments, data flows, and infrastructure for model development, training, tuning, and serving
  • Lead client workshops, discovery sessions, and architecture reviews
  • Align stakeholders on AI/ML roadmaps, deployment approaches, and production-readiness standards
  • Ensure solution quality, reliability, observability, testing, documentation, monitoring, and governance
  • Contribute to reusable reference architectures, accelerators, templates, and playbooks
  • Mentor team members and partner with Sales and account leadership to grow strategic AI/ML engagements
  • Collaborate with clients, Sales, data scientists, ML engineers, data engineers, platform/DevOps teams, and business stakeholders

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Engineer, or Data Scientist building and deploying production data and machine learning solutions
  • Strong proficiency in a modern programming language such as Python (or similar)
  • Experience designing and integrating APIs and services that expose ML models
  • Ability to build and operate robust data pipelines across diverse data sources and toolsets
  • Strong working knowledge of SQL, including writing, debugging, and optimizing complex distributed queries
  • Hands-on experience with big data and analytics platforms such as Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Amazon EMR, HDFS, or similar technologies
  • Familiarity with JMS, Kafka, RDBMS, data warehouses, MySQL, Oracle, and SAP and their integration into analytical and ML environments
  • Systems-level knowledge of network and cloud architecture, Linux-based operating systems, and storage/compute platforms such as AWS, Databricks, and Cloudera
  • Proven experience designing and operating production ML systems for performance, security, scalability, and reliability
  • End-to-end software development lifecycle experience for data and ML solutions, including design, documentation, implementation, testing, deployment, ongoing operations, model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent practical experience is listed under “Education - If desired” and is not required
  • Preferred: experience with Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP for AI/ML solutions
  • Preferred: experience with H2O, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, or similar ML frameworks
  • Preferred: experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, and MLflow
  • Preferred: consulting or professional services background, including pre-sales, project scoping, and strategic advisory work
  • Preferred: technical community, open source, public speaking, writing, or thought leadership contributions

Benefits:

  • Remote-First Work Environment
  • 401k plan with company match
  • Dental and Vision insurance
  • Home Office Equipment Stipend
  • Annual stipend for Learning and Development
  • Competitive comp, excellent benefits, 4 weeks PTO plan plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
  • Access to challenging projects, mentorship, and structured development pathways
  • Supportive, high-performing global team
  • Transparency, autonomy, and continuous improvement