.NET AI Architect || Chicago, IL / Dallas, TX / New York (100% Onsite) ||

Job title - .NET AI Architect

Location - Chicago, IL / Dallas, TX / New York (100% Onsite)

Long Term

.NET Architect AI-Powered Content Platform

We are looking for a highly experienced .NET Architect to lead the design and implementation of an intelligent, scalable content generation system that uses OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Search, and external data enrichment APIs (NOAA, SoilGrids, Google Trends, internal analytics). This system will power hyper-local, SEO-optimized content across a network of headless WordPress sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Architecture: Define and own the end-to-end architecture for an agentic AI content generation platform, leveraging Azure services, .NET, and OpenAI.
• Agent-Oriented Design: Architect modular, event-driven agents for content generation
• Data Integration: Build connectors to third-party APIs and harmonize structured/unstructured data for LLM prompts.
• AI Orchestration: Design pipelines using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns with Azure Cognitive Search and Azure OpenAI.
• Headless Publishing: Integrate with WordPress via REST/GraphQL APIs for seamless page creation, preview, and publishing.
• Scalability & Performance: Design for multitenancy, high-availability, and elastic scale using Azure Functions, Service Bus, and Durable Functions.
• Security & Governance: Implement secure API authentication, rate-limiting, observability, and prompt logging for compliance and auditability.
• DevOps & Delivery: Collaborate with the DevOps team to implement CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Bicep/ARM/Terraform), and automated testing.

Required Skills

Area Skills

.NET Core 7.0 , ASP.NET Core APIs, Dependency Injection

Cloud Azure Functions, Event Grid, Service Bus, Blob Storage, Cognitive Search

AI/LLM Azure OpenAI, RAG pattern, prompt engineering

Data REST APIs, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, external API consumption

DevOps Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Bicep/ARM

Architecture Event-driven, agent-based systems, microservices, API-first design

Security OAuth2, managed identity, secure API access

Integration WordPress REST/GraphQL APIs, CRM data, analytics ingestion

Documentation Mermaid diagrams, architectural decision records (ADR), Swagger/OpenAPI specs

Preferred Experience

• Experience building content automation or AI-based CMS tools
• Familiarity with SEO strategy, schema.org, and headless CMS patterns
• Experience with multi-brand/multi-site architecture
• Understanding of semantic search, vector DBs, and embeddings