Seasoned AI System Architect-Agentic AI & Conversational AI

The role

This senior technical architecture role focuses on designing and evolving Agentic AI and Conversational AI capabilities. You will architect systems for natural-language intent, reasoning, and multi-step workflows while performing hands-on engineering for approximately 20–30% of the role.

What you will do

• Shape the technical architecture of AI-powered experiences across the Anaplan platform
• Design intelligent agent architectures for business intent and context
• Evolve conversational experiences toward sophisticated agentic systems
• Establish architectural patterns for agent orchestration, memory management, and tool calling
• Design Conversational AI architecture for multi-turn conversations and intent understanding
• Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions using embeddings and vector search
• Evaluate and apply modern foundation models based on business requirements
• Write code in Python, Java, C#, Go or other relevant technologies to build prototypes and validate architecture
• Integrate AI capabilities with microservices, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
• Incorporate security, privacy, and governance into AI architecture

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience designing and building sophisticated software systems
• Substantial exposure to distributed systems, cloud architecture and modern AI technologies
• Meaningful hands-on experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models, Agentic AI, Conversational AI or closely related technologies
• Experience taking AI-powered solutions from experimentation or proof of concept through production
• Highly comfortable with at least one modern programming language
• Substantial experience designing APIs, microservices, cloud-native applications and distributed systems
• Deep understanding of modern LLM application architecture including RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompting, context management, tool and function calling, agent orchestration and AI evaluation

Nice to have

• Experience with technologies such as Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure AI Search, vector databases or comparable technologies
• Experience with multi-agent systems, MCP, AI observability, LLM evaluation, enterprise knowledge systems and secure AI architectures

About the company

Anaplan is a leading enterprise planning and decision-making platform that enables organizations to connect strategy, planning and execution across critical business functions. The company focuses on optimizing business decision-making through an AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform.