# AI Solutions Architect

**Company:** [Instacart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/instacart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $195k – $247k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Solutions Architecture, Enterprise Integration, ERP, Pos Systems, Snowflake, API Integrations, AI/ML, Systems Thinking
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Own data and AI architecture, integration design, and governance for enterprise retail/CPG partners. Hands-on role embedding with partner teams to map data, design integrations, and co-build AI solutions.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own data modeling, integration design, and governance across every engagement; serve as the senior technical authority from pre-sales through delivery.
- Map customer data and Instacart's data ontology together, and gate technical feasibility before any build begins.
- Establish integration patterns between the Intelligence Platform and partner systems, e.g., POS, ERP, loyalty, CRM, Snowflake, proprietary APIs, and mobile surfaces.
- Bridge partner technical requirements with Instacart R&D roadmaps, APIs, and SDKs; surface gaps and advocate for platform changes needed to serve the field.
- Prototype and code in real-time alongside partners.
- Review designs and unblock the Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure architectural integrity across the pod's engagements.
- Codify reusable integration patterns into scalable architecture templates as the pod scales.

## Requirements
- 10+ years in solutions architecture, data engineering, or senior software engineering, with demonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale systems.
- Deep expertise in data architecture and modeling across messy, heterogeneous enterprise environments, with enough AI/ML familiarity to understand how data quality and structure determine what is possible on the intelligence layer.
- Experience designing integrations across complex enterprise environments including ERP, POS, Snowflake, and proprietary APIs.
- Hands-on coding is non-negotiable — the ability to build is as important as the ability to design.
- Proven customer-facing experience presenting technical architectures to both engineering and executive audiences.
- Strong systems thinking — able to hold the full technical picture of a complex engagement while also working in the details.
- Comfort defining architecture from first principles in greenfield, ambiguous environments.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Background in retail tech, e-commerce infrastructure, or CPG data systems (POS, ERP, Snowflake).
- Familiarity with open agent standards or multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
- Prior experience in enterprise software implementation or systems integration.
- Startup or high-growth environment experience.

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