Lead Architect, GenAI Platform & Agentic AI

Lead Architect, GenAI Platform & Agentic AI    

About the Role

As a Lead GenAI Platform Architect on the AI Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end architecture of the firm’s Generative AI platform, while staying deeply hands-on in the design, execution, and delivery of GenAI initiatives. You will set technical directions for the firm’s GenAI platform while also building the first reference implementations that other engineering teams will adopt. You will define the evolving GenAI reference architecture, codify secure delivery patterns, write reusable infrastructure constructs, design IAM and deployment role chains, provision agent runtimes and data layers, and resolve the platform-level issues.

You will build a strong understanding of the firm’s existing technology platform, identify architectural and control gaps, and establish the secure paved road for GenAI delivery: reusable infrastructure patterns, guardrails, runbooks, operational standards, and reference implementations that allow teams to move faster without compromising security, resilience, auditability, or regulatory expectations. You will serve as a key technical authority for GenAI platform infrastructure, help define the firm’s Enterprise Architecture for GenAI in collaboration with application engineering, Information Security and platform operations to define secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready delivery patterns.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute and own the successful delivery of the firm’s GenAI priorities.
• Own and evolve the reference cloud architecture for the firm’s GenAI platform on AWS, including Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore runtimes, agent gateways, shared data layers, and secure integration patterns.
• Build reusable reference implementations using AWS CDK and infrastructure-as-code patterns so engineering teams can adopt approved GenAI capabilities consistently and securely.
• Design and implement secure multi-account, multi-environment, and multi-repo deployment patterns, including least-privilege IAM, OIDC federation, role chains, permission boundaries, and clear separation of deployment and runtime roles in partnership with Infrastructure teams.
• Provision and define operating patterns for platform data layers, including graph databases, vector search capabilities, Redis, semantic caching, secure access, backup/restore, scaling, and performance tuning.
• Partner with Infrastructure teams and Information Security to define guardrails, audit logging, governance standards, and security-review patterns for AI and LLM workloads.
• Own and improve CI/CD, container deployment, networking, observability, rollback, drift detection, and operational validation patterns across GenAI platform components.
• Troubleshoot complex platform issues, produce runbooks and design guidance, and mentor senior engineers through architecture, security, and operational design reviews.

  Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform ownership, including experience in a principal, staff, lead architect, or equivalent hands-on technical leadership role.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across IAM, CloudFormation, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, SSM, Secrets Manager, ECR, VPC, Cognito, and related enterprise platform services.
• Strong experience with AWS CDK or equivalent infrastructure-as-code frameworks, including reusable constructs, shared bootstrapping, multi-account deployments, and multi-environment delivery patterns.
• Expertise in IAM least privilege and CI/CD security, including OIDC federation, short-lived credentials, role assumption, trust policies, permission boundaries, pass-role controls, and deployment/runtime role separation.
• Understanding of enterprise authentication and authorization patterns using Okta, including OIDC/OAuth 2.0 and SAML federation, MFA, SSO, group-to-role mapping, token validation, and integration with AWS IAM Identity Center, Cognito, API Gateway, and GenAI agent runtimes.
• Production experience designing and operating secure cloud platforms with stateful data layers such as graph databases, vector stores, Redis, OpenSearch, or equivalent systems.
• Ability to assess an existing platform, identify architectural and security gaps, deliver practical improvements with limited oversight, and communicate effectively across engineering, architecture, security, and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, or comparable GenAI agent orchestration and runtime platforms.
• Experience securing GenAI platforms, including agent-to-agent communication, service-to-service authentication, tool access, runtime isolation, and API-driven LLM systems.
• Experience integrating graph databases, vector stores, and Redis-like systems into GenAI architectures for knowledge graphs, retrieval, semantic caching, session memory, or rate limiting.
• Experience with enterprise guardrails, audit logging, AI governance, model risk, evaluation, and security-review processes for AI workloads in regulated environments.
• Familiarity with private subnet architectures, VPC endpoints, AWS PrivateLink, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and network-aware deployment patterns for Lambda, Bedrock, data stores, and containerized GenAI runtimes.

The base salary range for this position is $170,000 - $220,000 per year. This range reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this role. In addition, this position may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, and other compensation programs as applicable. Eligible employees may participate in a 401(k) program with a generous profit-sharing contribution, medical, prescription dental, and vision coverage; life insurance; disability coverage; paid holidays; vacation; and sick time, subject to plan terms and Company policies.

 About Bessemer Trust:

• Bessemer Trust is a family office, overseeing $250 billion in assets for 3,000 individuals and families of substantial wealth. Its more than 1,300 employees are singularly focused on private wealth management — disciplined investment management, sophisticated wealth planning, comprehensive family office services, and highly personalized client service.
• Established in 1907 as the family office for Annie and Henry Phipps, Bessemer Trust is in its seventh generation of ownership by the Phipps family. As a self-made entrepreneur, Henry Phipps was a founding partner and chief financial officer of Carnegie Steel.
• Bessemer Trust retains its original focus as a privately owned and independent wealth manager deeply committed to its mission of providing peace of mind to its clients. Bessemer’s adherence to putting clients’ interests first, fiduciary mindset, and highly collaborative culture are at the heart of everything the firm does.

 Key Facts:

• For more than 119 years, Bessemer Trust has operated continuously in a single line of business, independently owned by one family.
• Headquartered in New York’s Rockefeller Center, Bessemer Trust has 22 offices in total. Woodbridge, NJ, is one of the firm’s largest offices, which hosts a wide range of technology and operations professionals. In addition to its sizable presence in New York and Woodbridge, the firm provides client service through offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Delaware, Denver, Garden City, Grand Cayman, Greenwich, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Naples, Nevada, Palm Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Stuart, and Washington, D.C.
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 About Our Employee Rewards and Benefits:

• We provide exceptional rewards and benefits that are among the best in the industry, giving our people access to a wide range of options, including:
• Competitive base salary plus discretionary annual bonus for select positions
• A 401(k) plan with a generous annual profit-sharing contribution
• Personalized development and career opportunities, including tuition reimbursement support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with zero contributions for employee coverage
• Employee assistance (EAP) and wellness programs
• Hybrid work environment: 60% in office, 40% remote for most positions
• Paid time off and paid parental leave
• Employer-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
• Legal services and financial wellness plans at no cost to employees

Bessemer Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of diverse backgrounds to apply.