AI Solutions Architect

The AI Solutions Architect serves as a critical link between the FAS community and the rapidly evolving landscape of AI capabilities. The Architect leads opportunity discovery, problem definition, stakeholder alignment, and overall solution architecture. Working as a paired team, both the Architect and AI Solutions Engineer contribute hands-on from prototype through product delivery. The Architect contributes to implementation, testing, demonstrations, and production transition; the Engineer holds primary responsibility for detailed engineering, deployment, reliability, and operational readiness. The Architect ensures a clear path to secure, sustainable support.

Job-specific Responsibilities: 

• Engage faculty, researchers, and staff across FAS to identify and frame AI opportunities and define intended outcomes.

• Lead requirements and tool selection, and design solutions per established patterns and University data, security, and privacy policy.

• Scope problem statements and lead rapid prototyping (AI platforms, APIs, low-code/no-code), partnering with the Engineer to put working software in front of stakeholders early.

• Assess sustainability - including cost, security, maintenance, service-owner capacity - and define readiness and acceptance criteria..

• Own the governance relationship (security, privacy, accessibility, data-governance, research computing) and secure the approvals that turn prototypes into supported services.

• Communicate across all levels of technical fluency and lead stakeholder alignment throughout delivery.

• Document architectures, decisions, and trade-offs so others can maintain and extend the work.

• Track the evolving AI landscape and lead evidence-based recommendations on readiness, capability, risk, cost, and fit.

• Contribute hands-on to implementation, testing, demos, and production transition, with the Engineer primary on detailed engineering and operations.

• Partner with HUIT's AI Innovation team to evaluate emerging capabilities and lead user-value prototyping.