
Senior Staff IT Architect – AI Architect, HRIT
Thermo Fisher Scientific
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Pittsburgh • California • Maryland • United States
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Salary
💰 $130,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and implement enterprise-wide solutions, with a focus on HR AI.
- Leverage ServiceNow (including NowAssist) capabilities as well as other AI tools and capabilities (ChatGPTe, Flowise, etc.)
- Lead the design of AI-driven HR chatbot and AI agent use cases
- Collaborate with HR stakeholders to translate requirements into robust architectural designs
- Perform technical analysis and present architecture decisions/recommendations to key stakeholders
- Define integration patterns across systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and protocols
- Monitor and improve AI performance and adoption in HR service delivery
- Contribute to AI strategy and governance within the HR technology ecosystem
- Work directly with HR stakeholders to refine use cases, translating ambiguous needs into clear, scalable designs
- Define how the HR chatbot and AI agents behave—how they answer questions, trigger transactions, and interact with systems like Workday and ChatGPTe
- Design how LLMs connect to APIs, workflows, and data sources—ensuring solutions are practical, secure, and maintainable
- Attend requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders
- Design complex chatbot flows and agentic AI use cases
- Define integrations and architecture for HR AI solutions (APIs, MCP)
- Make product or technology recommendations for AI solutions, evaluating and selecting appropriate tools and platforms to meet business needs
- Analyze and model technical solutioning options, considering scale, security, UX, business value and cost implications
- Provide technical assessments, highlighting capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Research industry best practices for AI technologies in HR service delivery
- Work with platform vendor to provide usage feedback and request product changes.
- Knowledge share and collaborate with other technical teams to implement architectural standards across the organization
Requirements
- Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of experience in enterprise architecture with progressive technical leadership responsibilities
- Experience with OpenAI products is highly advantageous (e.g., AgentKit, Agent Builder, OpenAI API, ChatKit, MCP Servers)
- Experience designing LLM-based solutions in enterprise environments
- Experience with building AI agents and multi-agent orchestration (MCP experience is a plus)
- Strong skills in prompt engineering, system instruction design, and orchestration
- Familiarity with multiple AI development platforms
- Knowledge of RAG including chunking, embeddings, reranking, and retrieval strategies
- Understanding of hallucination mitigation, grounding, citations, and knowledge freshness
- Ability to evaluate AI outputs and define performance metrics
- Knowledge of AI governance, risk, and data privacy
- Experience with building ServiceNow Virtual Agent topics with Now Assist
- Familiarity with AI Agent Studio and AI-powered ServiceNow capabilities
- Experience integrating ServiceNow with external AI platforms (OpenAI, AWS, etc.)
- Strong understanding of Flow Designer, IntegrationHub, Scripted REST APIs, and outbound integrations
- Experience designing HRSD solutions (Case Management, Knowledge, Employee Center) is a plus
- Deep expertise in cloud architecture, cybersecurity, data/analytics, automation, and network infrastructure
- Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise solutions
- Strong knowledge of modern architectural patterns, frameworks and best practices
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated services
- Expertise in infrastructure as code, automation, and DevOps practices
- Strong understanding of security principles and compliance requirements
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication abilities
- Demonstrated ability to guide and influence through collaboration
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail
- Experience with Agile methodologies and project delivery frameworks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI-driven HR solutionsprompt engineeringsystem instruction designmulti-agent orchestrationLLM-based solutionsintegration patternscloud architectureinfrastructure as codeDevOps practicesdata privacy
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementexecutive communicationcollaborationanalytical capabilitiesproblem-solvingattention to detailability to translate technical conceptstechnical assessmentsrequirements gatheringdesign thinking
Certifications
Advanced DegreeBachelor's Degree