Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions Architect

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The University of Louisville is seeking to hire a Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions Architect to operate at the intersection of technical teams and organizational stakeholders as the connective tissue between engineering, domain experts, and executive leadership. The AI Solutions Lead bridges the gap between abstract objectives and operational reality, guiding AI initiatives from idea to impact by aligning stakeholders, workflows, data, and infrastructure. The role builds organizational AI capability and literacy (not just one-off solutions), establishes a repeatable intake/scoping/evaluation practice, and ensures AI investment is aligned with strategic priorities and value.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical liaison connecting stakeholders, domain experts, and engineering teams; clarify requirements and communicate the strengths and limits of emerging AI systems.

• Act as systems architect to scope and design practical AI solutions that align with organizational goals and technical constraints.

• Work as an AI strategist and portfolio manager: identify high-value opportunities, assess risk and resource needs and prioritize people and compute investments against leadership priorities.

• Build AI literacy and enablement, foster communities of practice, cross-functional learning, and responsible adoption.

• Act as a knowledge broker: translate tacit expertise, workflows, and requirements into documented, reusable organizational knowledge, intake frameworks, templates, and build guides.

• Produce executive reporting and technical communications, support grant development, and advance AI readiness and governance.

• Work within secure environments that handle sensitive data: apply cybersecurity best practices and institutional security and compliance controls (e.g., HIPAA, NIST 800-53) across every system built and operated.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 2 years of direct, hands-on experience in an AI solutions architect, technical liaison, or AI strategy role (i.e., 2+ years working in this specific role).

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the technical depth to personally scope, prototype, and validate AI systems.

• Demonstrated project and portfolio management experience.

• Proven ability to work in secure environments that handle sensitive, confidential data, with a strong focus on cybersecurity. Must follow institutional security, privacy, and compliance controls (e.g., HIPAA, NIST 800-53) and apply secure engineering practices to protect sensitive data.

• Experience as a technical liaison, solutions architect, or AI strategist.

• Grant development, AI governance, and data-science background.

• Experience in research, healthcare, education, or public-sector settings.

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• Cross-functional technical liaison

• AI solution scoping & systems architecture

• AI strategy & portfolio management

• Enablement, AI literacy & communities of practice

• Knowledge brokering & reusable practice infrastructure

• AI readiness, governance & executive reporting

• Cybersecurity & secure handling of sensitive data

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Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Louisville is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. The University strives to provide equal employment opportunity on the basis of merit and without unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, or pregnancy. In accordance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veteran Readjustment Act of 1974, the University prohibits job discrimination of individuals with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, qualified special disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. The University acknowledges its obligations to ensure affirmative steps are taken to ensure equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. It is the policy of the University that no employee or applicant for employment be subject to unlawful discrimination in terms of recruitment, hiring, promotion, contract, contract renewal, tenure, compensation, benefits, and/or working conditions. No employee or applicant for employment is required to endorse or condemn a specific ideology, political viewpoint, or social viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, or promotion.

Consistent with applicable law, demographic information is collected for aggregate reporting requirements. Demographic information provided through this application is not available to hiring managers/committees and is not considered in hiring or employment decisions.

Assistance and Accommodations

Computers are available for application submission at the Human Resources Department located at 2315 South First Street Walk, Room 02C - Louisville, Kentucky 40292.

If you require assistance or accommodation with our online application process, please contact us by email at employment@louisville.edu or by phone 502-852-6258.