JOB OVERVIEW
Plan A Technologies is looking for a Solutions Architect with AI-Assisted Development Focus. We are building an agentic AI development platform that embeds AI deeply into software delivery workflows — from design and coding to testing, review, and operations.
We are looking for a Solutions Architect with strong coding skills who can design, build, and evolve production-grade agentic AI systems. This role sits at the intersection of software architecture, AI-assisted development, and platform engineering.
This is not a research or data-science role. The focus is on real-world systems, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
Please note: you must have at least 10+ years of experience as Solutions Architect to be considered for this role.
JOB RESPONSIBILITY
AI Platform & Provider Integration
- Design and integrate AI solutions using major cloud AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude) Google (Gemini).
- Architect provider-agnostic AI layers, including: model abstraction and routing, fallback strategies and multi-model orchestration.
- Evaluate new models and providers with a pragmatic, cost-aware mindset.
Agentic AI Architecture & Patterns
- Design and implement agentic AI systems, including: single-agent and multi-agent architectures, planner / executor / reviewer loops, tool-calling and function-calling patterns and event-driven and workflow-based agent orchestration.
- Define interaction patterns between AI agents, backend services, APIs, and human users.
- Balance autonomy with control using guardrails and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
AI-Assisted Development Enablement
- Actively use AI to accelerate software development, including: code generation and refactoring, test creation and validation and documentation and architecture assistance.
- Define standards, patterns, and best practices for developers working with AI-assisted tools.
- Partner with engineering teams to embed AI into daily development workflows.
Software Architecture & Hands-On Coding
- Design scalable, secure, and observable systems that embed AI as a first-class architectural component.
- Write and review production code (APIs, services, integrations) to validate architectural decisions.
- Make pragmatic trade-offs between flexibility, maintainability, cost, and delivery speed.
Cost, Performance & Reliability
- Monitor and optimize AI system usage, including: token and cost management, latency and throughput and model performance vs. cost trade-offs.
- Design architectural controls to prevent cost explosion in agentic systems.
- Implement strategies for graceful degradation and safe failure modes.
AI Operations, Governance & Safety
- Design guardrails against: prompt injection, data leakage and unintended agent behavior.
- Implement logging, tracing, and evaluation pipelines for AI-driven workflows.
- Support safe rollout strategies, experimentation, and continuous improvement of AI systems.
EXPERIENCE
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong background in software architecture and distributed systems.
- Hands-on coding experience (language-agnostic; backend experience required).
- Practical experience integrating and operating LLM-based systems in production.
- Deep understanding of agentic AI concepts and patterns.
- Experience designing systems used by developers (internal platforms, APIs, tooling).
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership teams.
- Excellent organizational, problem solver, and analytical abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
- Initiative and drive to do great things
Nice to have:
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector databases.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks and quality metrics.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or AI enablement initiatives.
- Understanding of fine-tuning trade-offs and when model tuning is appropriate (not required).
- Exposure to platform observability tools for AI systems.
ABOUT THE COMPANY/BENEFITS
Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.
Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com .
Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.
Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.
Benefits: Vacation, Brand New Laptop, and More: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule, and other goodies.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!