Job Overview
Compensation
Salary
Range $137,846.34 - $179,200.27
Benefits
Career growth and development opportunities
Comprehensive health and wellness resources
Wellness program to reduce medical plan deductible
Tuition Reimbursement
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Job Description
Baptist Health is the region's largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, operating 12 hospitals and employing over 29,000 individuals. With a network that includes 4,500 physicians and nearly 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities, and physician practices, Baptist Health serves Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. The organization is known for its internationally recognized centers of excellence in cancer treatment, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences. Grounded in a faith-based mission of medical excellence, Baptist Health has been consistently recognized by Fortune as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For over the past 26 years. Its reputation is further underscored by being the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida according to the 2025-2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, receiving 63 high-performing honors.
At Baptist Health, the people are what truly set it apart. The culture is rooted in purpose and compassion, with a strong emphasis on creating personal connections that extend beyond the workplace and patient care. Employees often share similar experiences with patients, fueling the organization’s commitment to delivering high-quality, compassionate healthcare. This deep-seated culture fosters meaningful relationships among colleagues and with the community, making every team member a vital part of the positive impact Baptist Health seeks to make every day.
The organization is also deeply committed to the professional and personal growth of its employees. The "grow our own" philosophy encourages continuous learning and career development through clear pathways, ongoing support, and tuition reimbursement. Employees benefit from comprehensive health and wellness resources designed to go beyond traditional offerings, including opportunities to reduce medical plan deductibles through wellness programs, contributing to lower out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Together, these initiatives ensure that team members have the support and resources they need to build long-term, fulfilling careers while making a meaningful difference.
The AI Architect role plays a critical part in Baptist Health’s continued advancement in technology, particularly within the artificial intelligence domain. This position is focused on leading the development and communication of target-state architectures, roadmaps, and technology solutions at the product portfolio level. The role encompasses designing high-quality architecture solutions and establishing standards that align closely with current and future business needs. As a leader and strategic thinker, the AI Architect influences leadership decisions, mentors junior architects, and drives technology adoption to meet the organization’s evolving requirements.
Specifically, the AI Architect will own the overall architecture and technical governance for the enterprise AI platform and AI-enabled solutions. This encompasses ensuring that AI capabilities are coherent, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards. The architect works closely with product teams, AI experts, and cloud engineering groups to deliver AI initiatives from concept to operational deployment effectively and securely. The position requires making architecture decisions across various AI domains, including AI platform integration, data connectivity, semantic layers, security, and governance essential for operating AI safely in a regulated healthcare environment.
In this role, you will lead technical discussions with cross-functional stakeholders, set strategic directions for engineering teams, and contribute hands-on work on critical designs and proofs of concept. The AI Architect is crucial in maintaining transparent and defensible architecture decisions through documentation like Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). This position offers a salary range from $137,846.35 to $179,200.26 per year, depending on experience. It is a high-impact role that combines technical expertise, strategic vision, and leadership capability to drive innovative AI solutions that enhance patient care and operational efficiency at Baptist Health.
At Baptist Health, the people are what truly set it apart. The culture is rooted in purpose and compassion, with a strong emphasis on creating personal connections that extend beyond the workplace and patient care. Employees often share similar experiences with patients, fueling the organization’s commitment to delivering high-quality, compassionate healthcare. This deep-seated culture fosters meaningful relationships among colleagues and with the community, making every team member a vital part of the positive impact Baptist Health seeks to make every day.
The organization is also deeply committed to the professional and personal growth of its employees. The "grow our own" philosophy encourages continuous learning and career development through clear pathways, ongoing support, and tuition reimbursement. Employees benefit from comprehensive health and wellness resources designed to go beyond traditional offerings, including opportunities to reduce medical plan deductibles through wellness programs, contributing to lower out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Together, these initiatives ensure that team members have the support and resources they need to build long-term, fulfilling careers while making a meaningful difference.
The AI Architect role plays a critical part in Baptist Health’s continued advancement in technology, particularly within the artificial intelligence domain. This position is focused on leading the development and communication of target-state architectures, roadmaps, and technology solutions at the product portfolio level. The role encompasses designing high-quality architecture solutions and establishing standards that align closely with current and future business needs. As a leader and strategic thinker, the AI Architect influences leadership decisions, mentors junior architects, and drives technology adoption to meet the organization’s evolving requirements.
Specifically, the AI Architect will own the overall architecture and technical governance for the enterprise AI platform and AI-enabled solutions. This encompasses ensuring that AI capabilities are coherent, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards. The architect works closely with product teams, AI experts, and cloud engineering groups to deliver AI initiatives from concept to operational deployment effectively and securely. The position requires making architecture decisions across various AI domains, including AI platform integration, data connectivity, semantic layers, security, and governance essential for operating AI safely in a regulated healthcare environment.
In this role, you will lead technical discussions with cross-functional stakeholders, set strategic directions for engineering teams, and contribute hands-on work on critical designs and proofs of concept. The AI Architect is crucial in maintaining transparent and defensible architecture decisions through documentation like Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). This position offers a salary range from $137,846.35 to $179,200.26 per year, depending on experience. It is a high-impact role that combines technical expertise, strategic vision, and leadership capability to drive innovative AI solutions that enhance patient care and operational efficiency at Baptist Health.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- 10+ years of professional experience in solutions architecture
- 5+ years in a lead architect role delivering cloud or AI/ML solutions at enterprise scale
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services including IAM, networking, GKE, and Vertex AI
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services
- Direct experience with Google Gemini Enterprise and Anthropic Claude AI platforms
- Proven skills in agentic AI system design
- Experience managing AI/MCP gateways like Apigee X
- Strong knowledge of AI security and governance practices
- Experience in identity and access management for AI agents
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with vector databases and semantic search technologies
- Understanding of distributed systems principles
- Experience in regulated healthcare environments
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of professional solutions architecture experience with at least 5 years in a lead architect role designing and delivering cloud or AI/ML solutions at enterprise scale
- Hands-on experience architecting solutions on Google Cloud Platform including IAM, networking, GKE, and Vertex AI services, with working knowledge of AWS cloud
- Direct experience architecting or integrating enterprise deployments of Google Gemini Enterprise and Anthropic Claude, including model routing, prompt and context management, and cost governance
- Proven experience designing agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration, tool/function-calling contracts, agent registries, and interoperability standards
- Hands-on experience with agent/MCP gateways such as Apigee X for routing, authentication, registration, rate limiting, policy enforcement, and observability
- Strong understanding of AI/LLM security and governance including PHI/PII handling, prompt-injection defenses, model access controls, guardrails, and audit/traceability in regulated industries
- Experience with agent and non-human identity and access management with least-privilege, verifiable, and auditable identities
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) for AI service deployment and governance
- Working knowledge of vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge graph technologies supporting retrieval-augmented generation
- Understanding of distributed systems principles including eventual consistency, failure handling, and resilience patterns as applied to AI/agentic workloads
- Experience operating in healthcare or regulated environment with familiarity with HIPAA and clinical data-handling requirements
- Demonstrated experience producing Architecture Decision Records, reference architectures, and Total Cost of Ownership analyses
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Job Duties
- Own end-to-end architecture for the enterprise AI platform across its core domains including model gateway and routing, agent orchestration and registry, context and memory services, data services, observability, and security/governance
- Define the multi-model strategy and routing architecture across Google Gemini Enterprise and Anthropic Claude, including model selection criteria, cost/performance tradeoffs, failover, and vendor-neutral abstraction patterns
- Architect the agentic AI foundation including agent registry and system-of-record design, agent-to-agent interoperability, Model Context Protocol gateway placement and enforcement, tool-calling contracts, autonomy tiering, and human-in-the-loop approval patterns
- Define architecture for agent and non-human identity and access management with verifiable, least-privilege, fully auditable identities and credentials for AI agents and automated workloads
- Design the enterprise context and memory architecture including RAG pipelines, semantic/vector search, and knowledge graph patterns supporting conversational agents and automation, with clear data governance boundaries
- Define architecture patterns for integrating AI solutions with clinical systems, especially Epic EHR, ensuring PHI handling, minimum necessary access, and safety review gates
- Lead design of the AI security and governance layer covering data loss prevention, model access controls, audit logging, and regulatory alignment
- Architect defenses against AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, indirect prompt injection, model abuse, data exfiltration, unsafe server behavior, and shadow-AI risks
- Establish guardrails against hallucination and unauthorized tool invocation including content and safety filters, output validation, and limits on agent autonomy
- Establish AI-platform observability and LLMOps standards including usage telemetry, latency and quality monitoring, model evaluation, drift detection, and incident response
- Serve as the primary technical escalation point for AI architecture including participation in architecture review boards and governance committees
- Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records and reference architectures to keep decisions transparent, consistent, and defensible
- Mentor and provide technical direction to AI, platform, data, and security engineers ensuring architectural consistency
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Clinical Informatics to ensure AI solutions meet regulatory, ethical, and clinical safety requirements prior to production release
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Experience
Expert Level (7+ years)
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