Sr Architect

job summary:

Seeking a senior architect to assess the current Cutover platform, identify scalability and operational bottlenecks, and define a next-generation architecture for automated incident detection, diagnosis, remediation, and operational orchestration. The individual should combine deep architecture expertise with practical knowledge of AI/ML technologies, large-scale production operations, and emerging automation platforms. The role would support the continued evolution of Cutover, which is already being positioned as a strategic automation platform within CTI and APSE and has ongoing work around integration scalability, workload isolation, and automation expansion

location: Charlotte, North Carolina job type: Contract salary: $56.49 - 66.49 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

Current State Assessment:

• Document existing Cutover architecture and supporting ecosystem
• Analyze application, infrastructure, integration, and data flows
• Identify performance constraints and technical debt
• Evaluate resiliency, scalability, and operational readiness
• Capacity Performance Engineering

Analyze:

• API throughput
• Database performance
• Queue utilization
• Worker concurrency
• Integration bottlenecks
• Infrastructure scaling limits
• Develop growth and capacity forecasts
• Future State Architecture

Define target-state architecture for:

• Autonomous operations
• Automated incident resolution
• AI-assisted remediation
• Event-driven automation
• Self-healing platforms
• Create a multi-year technology roadmap
• AI and Emerging Technology Evaluation

Assess and recommend industry-leading technologies for:

• Agentic AI platforms
• AIOps platforms
• Generative AI operations assistants
• Event intelligence
• Knowledge graph solutions
• Autonomous remediation frameworks
• Predictive incident management
• 3-5+ years enterprise architecture experience
• Experience with highly distributed systems
• Experience scaling mission-critical platforms
• Strong cloud and hybrid architecture knowledge
• Experience with API, event-driven, and microservice architectures
• Incident management
• SRE practices
• Operational observability
• Reliability engineering
• Experience in large-scale environments

Understanding of:

• LLM architectures
• RAG patterns
• AI agents
• Prompt engineering
• AI governance
• Model evaluation

Preferred

• Experience training or fine-tuning AI models
• Experience building AI-powered operational workflows
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise production environments
• Automation Experience
• Workflow orchestration platforms
• CI/CD pipeline

qualifications:

Current State Assessment:

Document existing Cutover architecture and supporting ecosystem

Analyze application, infrastructure, integration, and data flows

Identify performance constraints and technical debt

Evaluate resiliency, scalability, and operational readiness

Capacity Performance Engineering

Analyze:

API throughput

Database performance

Queue utilization

Worker concurrency

Integration bottlenecks

Infrastructure scaling limits

Develop growth and capacity forecasts

Future State Architecture

Define target-state architecture for:

Autonomous operations

Automated incident resolution

AI-assisted remediation

Event-driven automation

Self-healing platforms

Create a multi-year technology roadmap

AI and Emerging Technology Evaluation

Assess and recommend industry-leading technologies for:

Agentic AI platforms

AIOps platforms

Generative AI operations assistants

Event intelligence

Knowledge graph solutions

Autonomous remediation frameworks

Predictive incident management

3-5+ years enterprise architecture experience

Experience with highly distributed systems

Experience scaling mission-critical platforms

Strong cloud and hybrid architecture knowledge

Experience with API, event-driven, and microservice architectures

Incident management

SRE practices

Operational observability

Reliability engineering

Experience in large-scale environments

skills:

AIOps,Agentic AI,AI agents,API,AI,CTI,CI/CD pipeline,data flows

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.