IC6 - Sr Staff Data & AI Architect
Core
Architect modular, interoperable data and AI systems connecting engineering, data modeling, and machine learning across retail and fintech domains.
Role type
Sr Staff Data & AI Architect
Builds
Enterprise data/AI platforms (Databricks, AWS), MLOps/LLMOps pipelines, and scalable solutions for customer 360, fraud detection, and real-time decisioning.
Domain
Retail and Fintech data & AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Enterprise architecture, Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI), AWS (S3, Kinesis, EKS), MLOps/LLMOps, streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), data modeling (lakehouse, dimensional), AI governance, Terraform, stakeholder management
Preferred skills
GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI), TOGAF, DAMA-DMBOK, C4 modeling, data mesh, domain-driven design, FinOps
Technologies
Databricks, AWS, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Kafka, Kinesis, MLflow, Terraform, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Vector databases
Responsibilities
Define multi-year data/AI roadmap and target-state architecture; chair design authority forums and ADRs; optimize platform landscape and reduce technical debt; develop reference architectures and engineering guidelines; design composable interfaces and interoperable systems; own Databricks and AWS platform architecture; lead AI/ML and GenAI solution architecture; provide direction for Retail and Fintech use cases; integrate security, compliance, and responsible AI principles; mentor architects and data engineers; collaborate with business and technology leadership; define SLOs and resilience strategies; evaluate emerging technologies via PoCs.
Seniority
Sr Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
