AI Solutions Architect

AI Solutions Architect

Location : REMOTE

Contract : 12+ Months

Three major programs in scope :

Guided Personal Service (GPS) program - A large solution Scaled Agile framework-based (SAFE) program consisting of 3+ agile release trains. Primary stakeholders support our Healthcare member and provider contact centers. We are in year 7 of a multi-year journey to expand support for additional lines of business in support of our business team's mission. We are currently focused on integrating Medicaid into GPS.

Member Experience (MX) - A single Agile Release Train SAFE program with the goal of increasing the satisfaction and decreasing friction of Healthcare's members through timely digital communications, enhanced digital experience and data / analytics.

Required Skills :

1. rchitectural / technical experience with Gen AI (RAG / chain frameworks, Vector DB searches and embeddings, Agentic AI, etc.)

2. rchitectural / technical expertise with cloud especially GCP, Azure, AWS (native, cloud agnostic, container, etc offerings) and cloud / SAAS systems integration.

3. Experience designing REST APIs that facilitate a strong developer experience or simplify systems integration.

4. Experience designing systems that leverage Kafka for messaging / streaming.

5. Experience with RDBMS and / or NoSQL databases (i.e. MongoDB). Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns

6. Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach

7. dept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing

8. Familiarity with popular Design Patterns.

9. Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, program, developers, etc).

10. Excellent verbal and written communications

11. bility to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed

12. great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies

13. Experience on an Agile team

14. Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services

15. Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control

16. Meeting facilitation with stakeholders, partners and team

Desired Skills

1. Knowledge of impending AI agent interoperability "standards" / approached (i.e. Model Context Protocol, Agent2Agent, etc.)

2. Knowledge of Salesforce AgentForce.

3. Contact Center technology expertise (Salesforce, Five9, etc.)

4. proven track record working as part of a team on large / complex systems

5. Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles

6. Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching

7. Exposure to CI / CD and DevOps

Basic Solution Architect responsibilities

Receive epic / feature assignments and general direction from train architect.

Partner with Product Owner, BA and Development technical leads to refine / understand requirements.

Partner with Solution Domain Lead architects (if necessary) to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains.

Collaborate with integration architect to deliver solution artifacts (sketch, ppt, etc.)

Continuously attain and refine business and systems subject matter expertise.

Leverage architecture patterns for the solution. Create them if covering new ground.

Present solution sketches to various stakeholders (SS architect team, Infrastructure SMEs, business, etc.) for review and feedback.

Primary technologies

API-first centric enterprise moving to an AI-first centric enterprise

Azure cloud (compute), GCP (big data), some AWS (digital experience)

Salesforce Service Cloud for user experience (GPS and some MX)

Employment Practices :

EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant

VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.