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# Principal Data Architect

- **Company:** BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Data Architecture, Data Discovery, Data Infrastructure, Graph Database, Search Technologies, Data Layers, AWS Data Analytics
- **Published:** May 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d69388cc162d4066

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Technical solutions implementation?, * Extensive experience in data architecture and platform design within large-scale, cloud-based environments

 * Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing semantic layers or knowledge graph-based architectures
 * Deep expertise with AWS data and analytics services
 * Experience designing architectures that support advanced analytics, data discovery, and semantic search use cases
 * Proven ability to work across PoC and production environments, translating concepts into operational solutions
 * Strong leadership skills with experience guiding teams through complex architectural transformations
 * Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, * Experience with agent-based or agentic architectures for data interaction and insight generation
 * Familiarity with conversational analytics or chat-based business intelligence tools
 * Experience working with explainable or transparent analytics solutions
 * Background supporting business-facing data products or self-service analytics platforms

## Description

Adastra is looking for a senior, hands-on Principal Data Architect to lead the evolution of a modern AWS-based data platform from a federated data products layer into a scalable semantic layer powered by a Knowledge Graph. This role plays a critical part in shaping the architecture and technical direction of a next-generation data portal that enables advanced analytics, semantic search, and intuitive business-facing data experiences. You will act as both a technical leader and architect, working closely with engineering and product teams to bring proven concepts into production while helping build and guide a high-performing architecture team., * Define and own the architecture vision for expanding the data platform from federated data products to a semantic layer powered by a Knowledge Graph

 * Lead the design and implementation of semantic and context graphs to support advanced analytics, data discovery, and insight generation
 * Architect agentic systems layered on top of the data platform to enable semantic search, comprehension, and conversational data interactions
 * Guide the productionization of a completed Proof of Concept into a scalable, enterprise-ready solution
 * Provide hands-on technical leadership while helping build and mentor a high-performing data architecture team
 * Collaborate with engineering, analytics, and product partners to align architecture decisions with business outcomes
 * Ensure solutions are transparent, explainable, and accessible through business-facing interfaces


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