Director, Data Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and execution of complex and large Data and Analytics portfolio.
• Develop and implement a strategic roadmap to modernize legacy data and analytics ecosystems using Cloud and AI.
• Ensure data architecture and solutions align with enterprise-wide standards for Data, AI and Analytics.
• AI Data Engineering leader responsible for implementing AI data pipelines that integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions.
• Design, build and maintain scalable real‑time data pipelines for efficient ingestion, processing, and delivery.
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of lakehouse architectures, data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes and reporting systems.
• Mentor and lead a high‑performing team including Directors, Business data analysts, Data engineers and Release train engineers.
• Identify and champion developer productivity improvements across the end‑to‑end data management lifecycle.

• 12+ years in data engineering, data management and building large‑scale data ecosystems.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field.
• 7+ years in leadership roles managing large and complex data and analytics portfolio with large size teams.
• Proven strategic and innovative thinker with a track record of enabling transformative data capabilities.
• Mastery level data engineering and architecture skills, including deep expertise in data architecture patterns, lake houses, data integration, data domains, data products, conversational business intelligence, and cloud technology capabilities.
• Technical expertise in LLMs, AI platforms, prompt engineering, LLM optimization, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and vector database technologies (Vertex AI, Postgres, Open Search, Pinecone etc.).
• Strong experience with GCP, Vertex AI or AWS required.
• Experience in multi‑cloud environment.
• Strong experience with the design and development of complex data ecosystems leveraging next‑generation cloud technology stack across AWS or GCP Cloud and Snowflake.
• Exceptional presentation and verbal/written communication skills; must be able to communicate effectively at all levels across the organization.
• Preferred experience in the Employee Benefit insurance industry.

• Data Integration
• Lakehouse Architecture
• Data Warehousing
• Data Lakes
• Conversational Business Intelligence
• LLM Optimization
• Prompt Engineering
• Retrieval‑Augmented Generation
• Data Products
• Data Domains

• Exceptional Communication Skills
• Strategic Thinking
• Innovative Problem Solving
• Mentoring