Principal Enterprise Data & AI Architect
Raymond James Financial, Inc.
St. Petersburg, FL, United States
11 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Training Data
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services
Data Analysis
Applications Architecture
Application Frameworks
Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems
Audit Trail
Cloud Computing
Cloud Database
Cloud Engineering
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Data Architecture
Information Engineering
Data Governance
Data Security
Memory Management
Interoperability
PostgreSQL
Machine Learning
Metadata
Neo4j
Operational Data Store
Azure Machine Learning
Data Streaming
Enterprise Search
Enterprise Data Management
Design of Telemetry/logging Agents
Cloud Platform System
Data Ingestion
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Large Language Models
Snowflake
Prompt Engineering
IT Architecture
Model Validation
Generative AI
Agentic-AI
Data Layers
Data Lakes
AI Platforms
Core Data
Google Bigquery
Data Management
Machine Learning Operations
Data Lakehouse
Amazon Redshift
Databricks
Job description
- Serve as the principal enterprise architect for enterprise data platforms and AI/ML platforms/capabilities, agentic data access, semantic enablement, and data engineering standards.
- Own the architecture strategy, target-state designs, reference architectures, implementation blueprints, technical guardrails, and engineering standards for trusted, governed, scalable data and AI capabilities
- Define target-state architecture for modern cloud-based data and AI platforms, including operational data stores, cloud data warehouses, data lakehouses, data products, semantic layers, AI/ML platforms, vector stores, APIs, agentic data access services, and governed data consumption capabilities.
- Lead core data platform modernization by evaluating legacy and modern platform capabilities, defining workload placement criteria, and guiding migration from on-premises data platforms to scalable, governed, AI-ready cloud platforms.
- Evaluate and recommend cloud data, analytics, AI, semantic, governance, and engineering technologies using decision criteria based on scalability, security, interoperability, performance, resilience, cost, supportability, and enterprise fit.
- Design scalable architecture patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, curation, publishing, retrieval, and consumption across batch, streaming, event-driven, real-time, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic use cases.
- Define architecture patterns for machine learning, generative AI, AI services, intelligent applications, AI-enabled analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow automation, and agentic AI solutions.
- Evolve governed agentic data-access architecture from reference design to production-grade implementation, including agent-safe tools and API adapters that are read-optimized, entitled, audited, secure, and appropriate for regulated enterprise use.
- Drive architecture reviews for data and AI initiatives, identifying design risks, integration gaps, scalability concerns, governance needs, operational readiness issues, supportability gaps, and opportunities for reuse.
- Define non-functional requirements for data and AI solutions, including scalability, performance, latency, availability, resilience, observability, maintainability, cost efficiency, and operational supportability.
- Translate complex business, data, and AI requirements into practical architecture roadmaps, implementation patterns, reusable engineering frameworks, and migration plans.
- Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Data & Analytics, AI execution teams, data engineering, data science, analytics, cloud/platform engineering, application teams, security, risk, compliance, governance, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers, architects, and delivery teams on architecture patterns, AI/data design practices, engineering standards, operational readiness, and production-grade solution delivery.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in data architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud data architecture, data engineering architecture, AI architecture, ML architecture, or related senior technology roles.
- Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, including data engineering, data lakehouse architecture, data lakes, data products, metadata, lineage, data quality, semantic layers, and governed data access.
- Strong engineering and architecture experience with analytical/AI cloud-based data platforms such as AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery or comparable technologies.
- Strong engineering and architecture experience with operational cloud-based data platforms such as Aurora, Postgres, Dynamo DB and Graph data platforms such as Neo4J, Neptune and related technologies.
- Strong AI/ML platform engineering and architecture experience with AWS Sagemaker, AWS Bedrock , Vector databases like Open Search, ML Ops and LLM Ops
- Experience defining agent design patterns, AI/data reference architectures, reusable frameworks, technical guardrails, engineering standards, and production-ready architecture patterns.
- Deep expertise in agentic AI and LLM application architecture, including cloud-native AI/ML platform integration, model selection, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, tool/API integration, context and memory management, orchestration patterns, and production-grade frameworks for building scalable AI solutions. Familiarity with MCP-based tooling, Agent Harness or equivalent technologies is preferred.
- Strong understanding of data governance, AI governance, privacy, security, access controls, auditability, regulatory expectations, model risk, and operational risk in enterprise environments.
- Experience designing AI-ready data architectures that support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, enterprise search, intelligent applications, AI agents, and operational AI use cases.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain complex data and AI architecture concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience in wealth management, financial services, brokerage, asset management industries., * The ideal candidate is a deeply technical Principal Data & AI Architect who can lead architecture across enterprise data platforms, AI/ML solutions, agentic data access, semantic and AI context architecture.
- This person should be strong enough in data architecture to design the trusted cloud data foundation required for analytics and AI, and strong enough in AI architecture to guide how AI agents, machine learning, generative AI, retrieval systems, and intelligent applications are integrated, governed, deployed, monitored, and scaled.
- This is not a generalist architect role. It requires strong data engineering/architecture depth, practical AI/ML architecture experience, cloud platform expertise, production engineering discipline, and the ability to influence across data, AI, cloud, engineering, security, governance, risk, compliance, and business teams.
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