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 Client: reputed company / reputed company Job description: While the API Architect owns the core gateway architecture, runtime topology, and baseline patterns, this role focuses on:

• AI-aware gateway capabilities
• Policy-driven AI reputed company and governance
• Advanced exposure patterns for AI/LLM-backed APIs
• The intersection of AI, reputed company, and developer experience at the gateway layer

The goal: deliver AI-enabled APIs that are safe, scalable, compliant, and developer-friendly - without fragmenting or duplicating the core 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 core gateway architecture

reputed company requires strong architectural partnership, shared standards, and disciplined alignment. Core 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 token, cost, and usage governance at the gateway layer
• Ensure reputed company AI extensions reuse and build upon core 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 APIs 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-scale 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-Code (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 APIs in production
• Practical understanding of:
• Token-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 clear boundaries and prevent duplication
• Comfortable influencing without direct 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:

• Clear 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 scale across domains-not just single use cases.
• Ability to demonstrate technical concepts to non-technical audiences

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