AI Data Architect — Agentic Data Solutions (Hybrid/Remote)

7shifts; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental

Flexible vacation

Hybrid work environment

Professional growth

Job summary

7shifts is seeking an AI Data Architect to design and build how the company asks questions of its data. This hands-on role requires shipping, running projects, and partnering with data, IT, and product teams to deliver an agentic self-service portal for basic data requests across the organization.

You'll own end-to-end architecture, refine the semantic layer, and guide business context and governance to ensure certified answers while leveraging AI in data workflows.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python and SQL proficiency with data engineering or analytics background.
• Shipped an AI agent or LLM-based solution that answers questions from structured data and improved it.
• Experience managing AI/data projects across multiple teams and budgets.
• Familiarity with modern data stacks (dbt, Snowflake) and data governance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end agentic data solution architectures from question to certified answer.
• Build and roll out the self-service portal for data requests and drive adoption.
• Own front-end tool evaluation and secure integration with IT (identity, access, change management).
• Develop business context layer definitions and governance to support accurate interpretations.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

AI agent

LLM

Cloud platforms

Tools

Claude

MCP

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

7shifts is seeking an AI Data Architect to design and build how the company asks questions of its data. This hands-on role requires shipping, running projects, and partnering with data, IT, and product teams to deliver an agentic self-service portal for basic data requests across the organization.

You'll own end-to-end architecture, refine the semantic layer, and guide business context and governance to ensure certified answers while leveraging AI in data workflows.