AI Solution Architect (GenAI / RAG / Agentic AI)
Job Description
The OperAxis team is hiring an AI Solution Architect for a Fortune 500 industrial manufacturer. This is a 12-month onsite contract based in either Peoria, IL or Irving, TX. Only local candidates will be considered. You'll work alongside the client's existing architects to shape enterprise AI, data and Generative AI use cases, from business discovery through scalable solution design, and guide internal development teams across hybrid environments. The focus is discovery, solution architecture and implementation guidance, not hands-on model development or daily coding. Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Information Technology - Proven experience designing enterprise AI and GenAI solutions: NLP, RAG, vector search, enterprise search, prompt orchestration, agentic AI and multi-agent workflows - Experience leading discovery sessions and requirements gathering and turning them into architecture recommendations - Scalable solution design across on-premises and cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), including APIs, microservices, containers, cloud-native patterns and enterprise identity and security - Ability to build reference implementations and lightweight prototypes - Working knowledge of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, SDKs, notebooks and containers - Strong communication and facilitation skills with technical and business teams - Local to Peoria, IL or Irving, TX for 100% onsite work Responsibilities - Partner with existing architects to shape enterprise AI and data use cases, including Generative AI - Run business discovery and translate use cases into scalable solution designs - Provide architectural guidance to internal development teams across hybrid environments - Build reference implementations and prototypes to prove out designs - Define reusable architecture patterns and accelerators Nice to have - Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI or Microsoft Foundry - LangChain, LangGraph and GraphRAG - Snowflake and Dataiku - Agent harness patterns and MCP servers - Kubernetes, AKS or EKS