RR Donnelley
RR Donnelley
RR Donnelley provides marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions for organizations managing customer communications and experiences. Its services span creative execution and business process consulting, helping clients coordinate customer touchpoints across the journey while considering environmental impact. The company serves clients worldwide through a workforce of 32,000 employees across 28 countries, supporting organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to other large enterprises.

Senior AI Architect Technical Lead — RR Donnelley (Remote, Illinois)

Lead enterprise AI architecture for RR Donnelley’s AiVA workflows, covering integrations, security, technical quality, and client-facing solution design. Partner with delivery, product, and platform teams while guiding engineers across multiple engagements.

Description

  • Define the architecture for each engagement, covering skill decomposition, tool orchestration, data flows, integrations, and deployment models
  • Align solution architecture with client requirements and security best practices
  • Create guardrails tailored to each client
  • Review and approve AI Workflow Engineer implementations against the agreed architecture
  • Own integration architecture for client systems, including authentication, data ingress, downstream deployment, and monitoring
  • Decide between platform capabilities and custom solutions with Platform Engineering and Product
  • Define and document the target technical state, transition plan, and operational readiness criteria
  • Maintain the engagement technical risk register and escalate risks to the Delivery Principal
  • Serve as Technical Lead across multiple client engagements
  • Partner with the Delivery Principal on scope, schedules, and technical feasibility
  • Present solution architecture to senior client stakeholders
  • Define integration requirements and collaborate with platform developers on connectivity and delivery
  • Advise AI Workflow Engineers on architecture, prompt strategy, and evaluation design
  • Provide technical input for commercial discussions and identify scope expansion and platform-limit risks
  • Develop and mentor AI Workflow Engineers and Integration Engineers
  • Contribute reusable architecture patterns and technical playbooks to the Technical Lead community
  • Mentor newer Technical Leads and support capability development
  • Maintain compliance with client requirements, data protection obligations, security standards, and AiVA architectural standards

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
  • At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise integration
  • Demonstrated success leading complex technical architecture for client-facing delivery engagements
  • Ability to present effectively to senior technical audiences
  • Experience with enterprise-scale AI or automation platforms
  • Familiarity with agent frameworks, LLM APIs, and orchestration patterns
  • Azure cloud certification preferred, with AWS or GCP certification also relevant, or equivalent cloud architecture experience
  • Strong integration engineering experience spanning authentication, data pipelines, deployment infrastructure, and monitoring
  • Ability to collaborate across geographies and time zones
  • Experience in legal, professional services, or knowledge-worker environments is preferred but not required
  • Successful completion of pre-employment background and drug screening

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Paid time off
  • Disability insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Life insurance
  • Voluntary supplemental insurance coverage
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Tuition assistance
  • Employer and partner discounts
  • A bonus, commission, or incentive program may be available depending on the role
  • Flexible remote work arrangement

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