Sr. Data and AI Architect Full-time

ECS is seeking a Sr. Data and AI Architect to work in our remote office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon [contract award].

The Sr. Data and AI Architect will be a member of a high performing team and will play a key role in painting a vision while merging technical, business, and customer needs into achievable objectives and driving the completion of those objectives. As an expert in delivering technical projects, the Architect will identify challenges and improvements of to process, organizational practices, technical innovation, and culture; then lead cross functional team members solution and deliver improvements.

They will also apply their technical expertise across multiple technical disciplines to share the best approaches and solutions with our customers to improve complex strategic solutions and meet enterprise needs.

Strong candidates will have a track record of identifying strategic improvement opportunities, creating interest and buy-in, and executing on their vision.

Salary Range: $185,000-$215,000

General Description of Benefits

• 10+ years of IT experience including experience in design, analysis, and implementation of large-scale, complex data architectures
• 5+ years of Data experience in evaluating, architecting, and building AI and Generative AI tools
• Serve as a central facilitator in helping the organization to understand their current drivers and challenges
• Support Business Development efforts through maturing strategic solution ideas and aligning them with customer needs
• Ability to develop a roadmap that links the deployment of architectural capabilities within the organization to address inherent data challenges faced by the organization
• Ability to work hands on with developers to deliver solutions and provide customer facing support and solutioning
• Strong ability to communicate technical solutions with multiple stakeholders at different leadership levels to build relationships, provide guidance, and explain business value of technical solutions
• Experience mentoring data engineers, establishing best practices, providing code review, and helping team to understand business value of solutions
• Experience working in Agile environment leveraging advanced design and engineering best practices
• Building solutions that make use of data to improve business insights, help with operational decisions, and support performance management
• Knowledge of Data Management and Data Architecture concepts, Data Warehousing and Big Data tools, Data Analytics and applicable knowledge of Data Science concepts and tools
• Experience with Azure and AWS Cloud native data and AI technologies
• Experience with Databricks, SnowFlake, Palantir, and other large data platforms