What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend AI Architect with 15yrs exp position at NMK Global Inc.?
Backend AI Architect with 15yrs exp
Introduction:
This position is for a highly experienced Backend AI Architect with a total of 15 years of experience. The role will be based in Reston, VA. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in back end architecture, distributed systems, microservices, event driven architecture, API design, cloud native technologies, and AI driven intelligent platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and design enterprise-scale backend platforms that are secure, highly available, performant, and cost-efficient.
- Define and govern service architecture standards, API contracts, and runtime patterns across development teams.
- Drive technical decisions that balance innovation, maintainability, operability, and long-term platform health.
- Mentor and guide engineering teams in implementing services, APIs, and shared platform capabilities.
- Define and implement AI augmented backend architectures, including inference aware service patterns and model serving strategies.
- Integrate LLMs and GenAI capabilities into customer facing features and internal platforms.
- Establish spec-driven development workflows leveraging AI to improve developer productivity and quality.
- Partner with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product teams to operationalize models with strong SLAs, security, and cost controls.
- Champion Developer Experience (DevEx) by improving local development tooling, CI/CD quality gates, and test automation.
- Establish best practices for coding standards, secure development, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
- Promote observability first design using logs, metrics, traces, and AI-assisted insights.
Requirements:
Required Skills:
- Back End Architect
- Distributed Systems
- Microservices
- Event Driven Architecture
- API Design
- Cloud Native
- AWS
- DevEx
- CI/CD
- Observability
- LLM
- GenAI
- RAG
- AI Agents
- Inference Architecture
- Platform Engineering
- Champion Developer Experience
Preferred Skills:
- Managerial experience
- Stakeholder management
- Leading large, matrixed, multi-vendor teams
- Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on architectural depth