Lead AI Architect (d/f/m)

4flow software develops a range of global standard software products for logistics and transportation planning that can be applied across all industries.

Here, you will work at the intersection of logistics, technology, and compliance, driving product discovery and delivery. What your new challenge will look like optaire is our AI-native platform for supply chain and logistics optimization.

As Lead AI Architect, you own the platform architecture and shape the AI vision together with AI domain leadership. You work hands-on within an international product organization across Europe, India and the US.

About 4Flow

AI is not just a feature, it is at the core of how the product works.

Responsibilities

• The integrated planning approach of our software products ranges from the long-term optimization of network structures to the short-term optimization of transportation capacity utilization.
• In addition, planning results can be combined with transportation processing and accounting for integrated transportation management.
• Own the architecture of our AI-native platform and drive the related technical decisions across the AI domain.
• Design scalable, secure and maintainable AI systems for a multi-tenant enterprise SaaS environment, including central infrastructure for model and tool interactions.
• Agentic systems in Python on LangGraph and AWS Bedrock.
• Establish shared AI platform capabilities, standards and best practices that enable product teams to build and operate their own AI applications: SDK and component library, documentation, evaluation and release criteria.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design and code reviews, mentoring and collaboration with international engineering teams.
• Represent the AI domain across the organization, share expertise and translate emerging AI technologies into platform innovations.
• Why you belong at 4flow 8+ years of experience in software architecture, system design or platform engineering with production-grade systems.

Requirements

• You still design and write code today and you can justify your technical decisions in depth.
• Python skills and hands-on experience building production-ready agentic AI systems using LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI or similar frameworks.
• Strong cloud-native engineering background, ideally on AWS (Bedrock, AgentCore, ECS), including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of modern AI architecture, LLMOps, MCP, retrieval, evaluation and guardrails.
• Experience developing shared frameworks, SDKs or platform services, combined with a strong understanding of AI security, tenant isolation and policy enforcement.
• Strong technical leadership skills, effective communication across technical and business teams and confident use of AI coding assistants, including critically reviewing their output.
• Why 4flow?
• A clearly defined vision and job security at a company with German roots.

Preferred

• Free access to organic fruit, cereal, snacks, drinks, and coffee at all 4flow locations.

Benefits

• Exciting international work environment as well as rapid career development opportunities.
• Outstanding opportunities for your individual development (individual training budget and internal trainings).
• Permanent position, competitive base salary, an attractive bonus system, and a great benefits package.
• Flexibility and the opportunity to work remotely.
• Employee Assistance Program for mental health support.
• Sports, team member events and team getaways.

Ready for 4flow? We look forward to your application! We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, gender, origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other legally protected characteristic.