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AI Domain Architect

Allegis Global Solutions, Hanover, MD, United States


Company Description

Working at Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) is more than just a job. It’s a career. It’s a community of people who invest in your development and empower you to blaze your own trail. Each of us is here to create real, measurable impact that moves needles. We operate beyond "roles" or "jobs" to realize the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to a bigger idea. Because we believe that when you build a workforce that’s designed to harness human enterprise, you design a workforce that’s built for impact.

At AGS, we help companies all over the world transform their people into a competitive advantage. It’s not about filling seats. It’s about designing workforces to meet missions and unleash the most transformative power in business today: The power of human enterprise.

With services around the globe, we have a point of view on the future of work that enables us to be a transformative partner in the way work gets done for our clients’ organizations. Meeting clients where they are, we design a plan and guide them along a transformational journey, applying bold actions and diverse minds to solve the most complex challenges – from permanent and extended workforce management to services procurement, consulting, direct sourcing and our Universal Workforce Model™.

We also represent over 100 countries and speak dozens of languages. So as you’re building relationships and doing your job, you’ll be exposed to other cultures and advancement opportunities while expanding your knowledge of global markets and strategies.

See what it’s like to work at AGS by searching #LifeAtAGS on any social network.

Job Description

The AI Domain Architect is a senior enterprise architecture role responsible for designing and operationalizing AI-enabled solutions across assigned domains and delivery portfolios.

This role sits at the point where enterprise AI strategy becomes working software. The AI Domain Architect translates reference architectures, governance requirements, and platform capabilities into production-ready solution designs, and then stays in the work alongside engineering to see those designs through to delivery.

Operating at the enterprise level, the AI Domain Architect influences architectural direction across multiple initiatives while partnering closely with engineering, product, governance, and platform stakeholders to ensure AI systems are secure, observable, cost-effective, and aligned with AGS standards. This is not a purely advisory role. The AI Domain Architect works directly with the AI Product, Engineering, and delivery teams to ensure designs move successfully from concept to production.

Responsibilities

Solution Architecture for AI-Enabled Systems

Design AI-enabled architectures across assigned domains, aligned with enterprise standards, platform capabilities, and AGS reference patterns

Translate enterprise reference architectures into domain-level implementation blueprints that engineering teams can execute against

Guide design decisions for agentic systems, orchestration workflows, retrieval and grounding patterns (RAG), model integration, and tool use

Architect secure integration patterns covering identity, permissions, auditability, and service-to-service authentication for AI workloads

Partner with engineering leads to ensure designs are scalable, maintainable, and realistic for the team’s context

Production Readiness and Operationalization

Embed observability, telemetry, evaluation, and monitoring requirements into solution designs from day one

Build in lifecycle management, model and prompt versioning, cost monitoring, and safe deployment practices

Define evaluation approaches including baseline test sets, regression coverage, quality thresholds, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints where appropriate

Integrate logging, safety signals, and performance metrics in partnership with AI Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams

Support production readiness reviews and architectural risk assessments before go-live

Governance, Risk, and Responsible AI

Translate governance and risk requirements into practical architectural controls that don’t slow delivery unnecessarily

Ensure required documentation, evidence, and compliance checkpoints are built into delivery workflows rather than bolted on at the end

Guide teams through architecture reviews and governance intake, including the judgment calls that sit between them

Embed approved guardrails, content safety controls, and platform policies into solution designs

Proactively surface architectural and AI-specific risks (data leakage, prompt injection, model misuse, cost exposure) and propose mitigations

Patterns, Reuse, and Platform Feedback

Promote reuse of approved templates, patterns, and reference implementations across the domain

Identify duplication and drift within the domain and recommend consolidation

Provide structured feedback to enterprise architecture and platform teams so reusable assets keep getting better

Contribute to evolving standards based on implementation learnings and post-production insights

Delivery Partnership and Technical Leadership

Operate as a trusted technical partner to engineering, product, governance, and domain leadership

Participate in technical design workshops, delivery planning, and architectural due diligence for AI-enabled integrations and third-party solutions

Support roadmap planning by bringing architectural feasibility, scalability, and total-cost considerations into the conversation early

How You Work

Partner, not gatekeeper. You earn the right to be heard by being in the work, not by standing outside it.

Accelerator, with judgment. You speed teams up when you can, and slow them down when you should. You know the difference, and you can explain it.

Hands-on when it helps. You stay current enough to prototype, pair, and debug alongside engineers, even though shipping the final code is the team’s job, not yours.

Enterprise-minded, delivery-oriented. You hold the bigger picture without losing sight of what’s actually shipping.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

8 to 12+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, platform engineering, or AI-enabled system design

Demonstrated experience designing and delivering production-grade AI or automation solutions, not just proofs of concept

Proven experience designing enterprise-scale Azure architectures aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework, with particular strength across security, cost management, and governance

Deep working knowledge of identity and access architecture on Azure, including Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, service principals and workload identities, and network isolation patterns (private endpoints, VNet integration), applied to AI workload patterns

Expertise designing and deploying solutions on Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry / Azure AI Studio) and Azure OpenAI Service, including model lifecycle management, evaluation tooling, prompt flow, Content Safety, and integration with enterprise applications

Strong command of AI system design patterns: agentic orchestration, RAG and grounding architectures, tool use, evaluation strategies, and operational considerations for production AI

Strong understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP), both as server publisher (tool registration, schema design, transport modes, capability negotiation) and as client consumer (approval, authentication, and governance of MCP tools)

Experience with evaluation and observability for AI systems (eval harnesses, tracing, drift and quality monitoring)

Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate architectural concepts into actionable delivery guidance and to hold a position with technical leaders when the situation calls for it

Comfort partnering directly with engineering teams on solutioning, including light-weight prototyping and technical deep-dives

Preferred Qualifications

Experience operating in regulated or high-governance environments

Experience with data architecture for AI (vector stores, search indexes, document and knowledge pipelines)

Familiarity with MLOps practices and production monitoring tooling for AI workloads

Experience within staffing, workforce solutions, or HR technology

Prior experience supporting multiple delivery teams within a Center of Excellence or enterprise architecture function

Additional Information

Per Pay Transparency Acts: The range for this position is $164,000 - $246,000 + bonus potential of up to $10,000.

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. This role is eligible for the following:

Medical, dental, & vision

401(k)/Roth

Insurance (Basic/Supplemental Life & AD&D)

Short and long term disability

Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)

Transportation benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Tuition assistance

Time off/Leave (PTO, primary caregiver/parental leave)

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email Accommodation@allegisglobalsolutions.com for other accommodation options.

*Location disclaimer: this position is open to North America locations outside of California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York and Washington.