System Architect IT Specialist

Job responsibilities
- Lead and participate in the planning, definition, development, and high-level design of complex product solutions and architectural alternatives
- Enable a continuous delivery pipeline through proper design guidelines
- Define and communicate system interfaces, data structures, data storage, integrations, cybersecurity considerations, test automation concepts, and deployment approaches
- Establish and communicate critical nonfunctional requirements
- Consider the impact economic boundaries have on design decisions and operate accordingly
- Participate in solution planning, incremental planning, product demos, and inspect and adapt events
- Plan and develop the architectural runway for a product that supports desired business outcomes
- Provide technical oversight and encourage security, quality, and automation
- Effectively negotiate with the business to ensure nonfunctional work (e.g. patching, platform upgrade etc.) is properly prioritized and worked on to reduce the accumulation of technical debt over time
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of AI solutions, ensuring they integrate seamlessly into existing systems.
- Collaborate closely with senior IT and business leaders, enterprise architects, and Cyber Security teams.
- Oversee the implementation and maintenance of machine learning workflows and manage the lifecycle of large language models.
- Design and optimize prompts to guide the behavior of language models and provide strategies to improve their accuracy.
- Advise on optimizing token usage for cost-effectiveness and improved performance

Qualifications:

Basic (required) Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree Accredited Institution
• Minimum seven (7) years in the software industry
• Minimum three (3) years in Azure Open AI, LLMOps, MLOps, Machine learning, RAG, Model Tuning and accuracy evaluation and API's and Azure Cloud Services
• No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of one of the following locations listed to be considered: Beachwood, OH: Galesburg, MI: Houston, TX: Menomonee Falls, WI: Moon Township, PA: or Raleigh, NC
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future

Preferred Qualifications:
• Extensive experience utilizing best practices in software engineering
• Extensive experience developing enterprise grade, highly scalable, highly performant applications and/or distributed systems
• Expert level skills in C#, Python
• Expert level understanding of software design principles, design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multithreading concepts
• Expert level understanding of DevSecOps, CI, and CD principles from code check-in through to deployment
• Extensive experience with modern software development principles including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services.
• Solid understanding and proven usage of cybersecurity concepts such as encryption, hashing, certificates, PKIs, Threat Modeling, secure coding, and OWASP.
• Extensive experience working with Agile, Scrum, or Kanban
• Experience with multiple cloud service providers such as Azure, AWS, and GCP. Certification is a plus
• Familiarity with models like LAMA , Mistral etc

Soft skills

- Advanced verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain and present technical concepts to all levels of the organization
- Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Good judgment, time management, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work collaboratively on a technical team
- Patience and empathy when working with and coaching developers and testers
- Extensive experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations and teams

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