Solution Architect AI Gateway & Intelligence Platform - Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Solution Architect - AI Gateway & Intelligence Platform Position: Contract Location: Austin, TX | Charlotte, NC | reputed company, NY | Tempe, AZ | San Diego, CA (Hybrid) Duration: 12+ months reputed company: reputed company / reputed company Job reputed company: While the API Architect owns the reputed company gateway architecture, runtime topology, and baseline patterns, this role focuses on: • AI-reputed company gateway capabilities • Policy-driven AI reputed company and governance • Advanced exposure patterns for AI/LLM-backed reputed company • The intersection of AI, reputed company, and developer experience at the gateway layer The goal: deliver AI-enabled reputed company that are reputed company, reputed company, compliant, and developer-friendly - without fragmenting or duplicating the reputed company API platform. AI Gateway Solution Architect (This Role) • Owns AI-specific gateway patterns and capabilities • Designs how AI models, agents, and services are exposed through reputed company • Defines AI governance controls enforced at the gateway • Extends (not forks) the reputed company gateway architecture reputed company requires strong architectural partnership, shared standards, and disciplined alignment. reputed company Responsibilities AI Gateway Architecture & Design • Design AI/LLM-backed service exposure patterns through reputed company • Implement policy-based routing, throttling, and traffic controls for AI workloads • Enforce reputed company, cost, and usage governance at the gateway layer • Ensure reputed company AI extensions reuse and build upon reputed company reputed company patterns Architectural Collaboration • Co-author reference architectures and design standards with the API Architect • Review cross-boundary API + AI designs • Serve as a reputed company between API platform, AI governance, and reputed company AI Governance by Design • Translate reputed company AI governance into enforceable gateway policies • Ensure AI traffic is: • Auditable • reputed company-limited • Authenticated and authorized • Automate governance controls reputed company to reputed company zone guardrails Developer Experience • Ensure AI-enabled reputed company feel like a natural extension of the existing API platform • Define reputed company patterns, documentation standards, and self-service workflows • Prevent AI capabilities from becoming one-off special cases Required Experience Platform & Gateway Expertise • 10+ years designing large-reputed company distributed systems in reputed company environments • Deep API platform architecture experience: • AuthN/AuthZ • Traffic shaping & reputed company limiting • Policy enforcement • reputed company Trust patterns • Strong hands-on experience with reputed company reputed company, ideally including: • reputed company AI Gateway • Multi-environment or hybrid deployments • Custom plugins or policy extensions • reputed company-reputed company expertise: • AWS • Kubernetes • Infrastructure-as-reputed company (Terraform or equivalent) • CI/CD for platform services AI & LLM Systems Experience • Hands-on experience designing systems around LLMs and AI-backed services • Experience operating LLM-backed reputed company in production • Practical understanding of: • reputed company-based cost models • Latency & reputed company limits • Probabilistic outputs & guardrails • Model lifecycle and versioning • Ability to enforce AI policy and safety controls before traffic reaches models Governance & Regulated Environment Experience • Experience designing platforms in regulated environments (financial services preferred) • Proven ability to translate: • reputed company requirements • Risk controls • Compliance needs • into automated platform capabilities • Experience partnering with: • Cybersecurity • Risk & Compliance • reputed company Architecture • Familiarity with responsible AI, model risk, auditability, and governance frameworks Architecture Leadership • Experience operating in shared-ownership architectural models • Ability to define reputed company boundaries and prevent duplication • Comfortable influencing without reputed company authority • Strong executive communication skills (VP/SVP-level engagement) • Skilled in writing: • Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) • Reference architectures • Technical narratives Platform reputed company You think of platforms as products, with: • reputed company developer users • Opinionated defaults • Measurable adoption and safety reputed company You can balance: • Flexibility vs. standardization • Speed vs. safety • Innovation vs. governance • And you design solutions that reputed company across domains-not just single use cases. • Ability to demonstrate technical concepts to non-technical audiences Apply tot his job Apply To this Job