About this role
This role in going to work in AI Enablement team focusing on architecture, solutions design for AI use cases. Define and maintain the enterprise reference architecture for agentic platforms (agentic framework, tools, MCP, registries, evals, orchestration, grounding, observability). Establish architectural standards and best practices for agent design, tool integration, safety, telemetry, versioning, and lifecycle management. Provide architectural leadership for agentic platform engineering teams, ensuring scalability, resiliency, performance, and operability. Design, develop and guide integration with semantic layers, embeddings, vector search, knowledge models, and enterprise data products to enable grounded agent behavior. Drive architectural direction and hands on implementation for low-code/no-code agent-building platforms, ensuring governance, consistency, and ease of adoption. Partner with cloud, security, product, and enterprise architecture teams to align agentic platform designs with Kroger’s AI governance and RAI principles. Define and support agentic SDLC through patterns for evals, safety tests, regression gates, monitoring, and benchmarking. Evaluate new agentic frameworks, open-source standards, and orchestration tools to guide build vs buy platform decisions.
Partner closely with development, senior product management, architecture, information security & infrastructure teams within a large organization to deliver software & technology products that meet functional & non-functional requirements & produce desired business outcomes. Curate & adhere to architectural principles & associated processes for adopting new technology or integrating with a new third-party solution. Advise senior product management on technology specific aspects of product strategy development & adopt emerging technology appropriate to stated goals. Mentors junior solutions architecture staff on architectural principles & methods. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
What you’ll receive from us:
The Kroger Family of Companies offers comprehensive benefits to support your Associate Well-Being, including Physical, Emotional, Financial and more. We'll help you thrive, with access to:
- A wide range of healthcare coverage, including affordable, comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, through company plans or collective bargaining agreement plans.
- Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles with paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
- Emotional and financial support with free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program and free, confidential financial tools and coaching with Goldman Sachs Ayco.
- Valuable associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, technology and so much more.
- Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over your career, through our industry-leading Continuing Education program.
- Vast potential for growth, through an abundance of industry-leading training programs and diverse career pathways.
Other facts
About The Kroger Co.
At Kroger, we believe no matter who you are or how you like to shop, everyone deserves affordable, easy-to-enjoy, fresh food. This idea is embodied in our simple tagline—Fresh for Everyone™.
Kroger ranks as one of the world’s largest retailers. We are nearly half a million associates across 2,800 stores in 35 states operating two dozen grocery retail brands and 34 manufacturing and 44 distribution locations, all dedicated to living our Purpose: to Feed the Human Spirit™. Together, we serve more than 11 million customers daily in our stores and online through convenient e-commerce options like pickup, ship and delivery, serving America through food inspiration and uplift.
Customers love Our Brands, including the popular Kroger®, Private Selection® and Simple Truth® brands. Our own manufacturing plants produce many of Our Brands products, including breads, dairy products, meat and thousands of grocery items.
We also believe in and are committed to doing our part to create #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025.
To learn more about us or apply for a job, visit TheKrogerCo.com.
What you'll do
- The AI Architect will work on architecture and solutions design for AI use cases, establishing standards and best practices for agent design and tool integration. They will provide architectural leadership to engineering teams and drive implementation for agent-building platforms.
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