AI Platform Architect

Overview

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 200,000+ associates across 8 states. Join the Enterprise Architecture team as an AI Platform Architect to provide technical leadership in Publix’s AI adoption.

Location:

Flexible Hybrid (8 days per month in Lakeland, FL). Work Model:
Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

$/yr - $/yr

• Developing and maintaining the enterprise AI platform roadmap aligned with Publix’s business objectives.
• Evaluating emerging AI technologies and platforms for scalability, security, and compliance.
• Establishing standards and best practices for AI platform adoption across the organization.
• Designing and developing robust, scalable, and secure AI platform architecture.
• Ensure integration with existing enterprise systems, data pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Optimizing the AI Platform infrastructure for performance, cost-efficiency, and high availability.
• Producing architecture documentation and deliverables, including Architecture Plans, ADRs, proofs-of-concepts, standards, and roadmaps.
• Providing leadership, knowledge, and experience to teams on the architecture, design, and delivery of cost-effective and sustainable AI solutions.
• Providing training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to team members.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience leading analysis of complex business problems and translating requirements into technology solutions considering performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability, and TCO.
• 5+ years as an Architect or technical lead on development projects.
• 5+ years working with multiple technologies and processing environments, including databases, operating systems, application servers, web servers, messaging, web services, security, and portals.
• 1+ years leading AI/ML platform initiatives (LLM platforms, MLOps).
• 1+ years designing, developing, and scaling AI-based solutions (e.g., RAG, Agentic Workflows, model routing, fine-tuning).
• 1+ years of experience with major AI platforms (OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, or Google).

• Strong knowledge of LLM tool chains and frameworks (Lang Chain, Llama Index, Hugging Face, OpenAI/Azure/Gemini).
• Knowledge of vector databases, embedding/model selection.
• Prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails for AI solutions.
• API technologies (REST, gRPC, OpenAPI) and API-first development.
• Containerization and orchestration experience.
• No
  
  SQL databases (Mongo
  
  DB, Cassandra).
• Cloud experience in Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• Data streaming (Kafka), batch processing (Spark), data lake, and ETL/ELT platforms.

• Employee stock ownership plan contributing Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• Opportunity to purchase additional shares of privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches at facilities with a cafeteria
• Visit our benefits site for details

Year End Bonus:
Publix issues one month’s extra pay as a year-end bonus if employed through issue date. This is described in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line.

Relocation allowance will NOT be provided.