Prior experience designing, configuring, and optimizing AI systems, including large language models (LLMs), generative AI, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, evaluation, and AI platform technologies such as Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services, and comparable LLM/ML platforms with MLOps/LLMOps practices. A minimum of eight years in 8+ years of progressive experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, software, data, or engineering roles, including architecting enterprise-scale systems and delivering AI/ML or generative AI solutions in production environments.