Principal Digital Architect

Principal Digital Architect

Chicago or Peoria, IL (Local candidates only)
Candidate Requirements:
10+ years of overall IT experience
Strong experience matching the required AI and Digital Architecture skill set listed below
Bachelor's degree required
Genuine consultants only with an active LinkedIn profile that aligns with the resume
Local to Chicago or Peoria, IL only
Required Skills:
5+ years of architecture experience
Strong architectural thinking with the ability to design scalable, enterprise-grade solutions and articulate trade-offs
Technical leadership with the ability to influence cross-functional teams
Excellent communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders
Expertise in requirements analysis and translating business needs into technical architecture
Strong foundation in platform and application architecture
AI & GenAI Expertise:
Hands-on experience designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, including:
Data ingestion pipelines
Document preprocessing and chunking
Embedding models and vectorization
Query-time retrieval, ranking, and context assembly
Experience with vector databases, similarity search, and embedding optimization
Experience with Agentic AI frameworks
Ability to architect end-to-end AI workflows, including prompt engineering, context management, model routing, and fallback strategies
Strong understanding of LLM lifecycle, including model selection, RAG vs. fine-tuning, evaluation, monitoring, and drift detection
Experience optimizing AI systems for performance, latency, cost, security, privacy, and enterprise integration
Preferred Skills:
AI reference architecture and enterprise AI standards
Production implementation of AI solutions from PoC to enterprise scale
Strong programming skills in Python and Java
Enterprise-scale distributed systems
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
Snowflake, SQL/NoSQL, data architecture
DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability
API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)