Director of Architecture - Data and AI

What you'll do

• Set Data architecture direction for transactional and analytics applications and guide AI enablement at the data layer.
• Lead architecture implementations and governance, including coding decisions, controls, cost, maintainability, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Make decisions on team resources and budgets, and lead cross-functional architect teams and talent development.

What they ask for

• 15+ years in software architecture, including at least 5 years architecting large-scale complex data analytics platforms.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; formal architecture training or certification and 10+ years of applied experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional architecture teams, using enterprise-authorized AI safely, and evaluating AI-assisted recommendations against resiliency, security, and auditability expectations.
• Product Owner or Product Manager experience and practical cloud native experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Semantic Search in structured and semi-structured data, distributed systems, cloud services, and AI in large data platforms.
• Experience delivering complex trading or financial systems in a global banking environment.

Pay

USD 204,250.00-$285,000.00 base salary

Tools

Search, Vector, Graph data stores

AI focus

Leads AI enablement at the data layer and adoption and governance of enterprise-authorized AI in architecture and engineering workflows, including human-in-the-loop validation, sensitive-data handling, and auditability.