AI Infrastructure Architect Senior Manager
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients individuals and communities. Were helping our clients find new ways to drive growth enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And were developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.
As a member of the Huron corporate team youll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces industry trends and client needs. Our accounting finance human resources IT legal marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Hurons collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.
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The AI Infrastructure Architect will serve as the technical architect and lead builder for the AI operations platform. This role defines and builds the platform patterns for governed model access identity networking infrastructure as code usage telemetry project attribution sandbox deployment service mediation and operational tooling.
This is an expert builder/architect role who must be able to design the platform implement critical components guide technical decisions provide day-to-day technical direction to platform engineers and turn governance requirements into reusable infrastructure patterns. The emphasis is infrastructure and platform engineering building the foundations that application and solution teams rely on with hands-on contribution to application-adjacent components where needed.
Reporting / Organization
This role sits within AI Operations in Corporate IT part of the CIO organization and reports to the Director AI Operations.
- Serve as hands-on technical lead for AI reference architecture workload patterns control-plane boundaries model access agent execution and integration decisions.
- Define and build approved patterns for Amazon Bedrock model access networking identity logging data flow and production deployment.
- Design core AI control-plane patterns for registration policy enforcement usage tracking attribution quotas audit reporting and exception handling.
- Build reusable infrastructure as code deployment templates automation sandbox patterns MCP or equivalent service mediation and operational tooling.
- Lead implementation of usage telemetry token reporting user attribution project attribution and cost-management data pipelines.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to AI infrastructure engineers including design and code review.
- Partner with security governance knowledge and observability functions to implement controls knowledge access evaluation and audit evidence through automation.
- Partner with the AI Capability Center under the Chief AI Officer to deliver the infrastructure and platform foundations with targeted prototyping behind solutions for Hurons go-to-market teams.
- Use AI tools hands-on to accelerate architecture design infrastructure coding code review testing documentation troubleshooting and operational improvement.
- Review and guide priority workload onboarding to ensure use cases follow approved architecture and operating patterns.
- Document reference architectures implementation patterns runbooks and engineering standards.
- 8 years of experience designing and building production cloud platforms AI platforms developer platforms data platforms or distributed systems including 4 years with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.
- Strong AWS architecture experience including identity networking logging observability infrastructure as code security boundaries and production operations.
- Strong hands-on engineering skills in at least one modern programming language and infrastructure automation framework.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools as a practical system-building accelerator for platform engineering automation code generation code review testing or documentation.
- Experience with APIs service integration secure deployment patterns event-driven systems or platform automation.
- Ability to design for security auditability cost visibility operational reliability and reuse.
- Experience translating business governance and risk requirements into pragmatic engineering patterns.
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock or equivalent enterprise model access platforms.
- Experience with MCP or comparable governed tool/service mediation patterns.
- Experience with durable agentic AI orchestration platforms for platform automation agent workflows or long-running AI operations.
- Experience with sandboxed execution coding agents secure agent runtimes or developer workspaces.
- Experience with token/cost telemetry usage attribution chargeback showback or FinOps data pipelines.
- Experience with regulated or client-confidential workloads.
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading small technical workstreams.
Flexible living locations across the US. Ability to travel as needed.
The estimated base salary for this job is $175000 - $245000. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors including but not limited to specific skills or certifications years of experience market changes and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Hurons annual incentive compensation program which reflects Hurons pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity the total estimated compensation range for this job is $210000 - $294000. The job is also eligible to participate in Hurons benefit plans which include medical dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
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