AI Knowledge & Context Architecture Lead

Teradata; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Inclusive culture

Well-being program

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architectural activities across the Americas, collaborating with strategic customers and Teradata teams to create practical foundations for AI. You will guide discovery, design sessions and governance, shaping data models and metadata strategies for enterprise knowledge and AI applications.

You will apply data engineering and modelling skills to build scalable data architectures, mentored by senior leaders and working

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in data architecture, data modelling or data engineering across complex environments.
• Practical knowledge of relational data architectures and modelling approaches.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with customer data.
• Experience with metadata management, lineage, data quality or governance.
• Experience designing modern data architectures across warehouses, lakehouses and cloud platforms.
• Understanding of data-product concepts and how governed data assets support AI and humans.
• Knowledge of modern AI architectures (LLMs, RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs).
• Ability to translate business requirements into architecture and technology decisions.
• Able to explain complex topics to technical, business and executive audiences.
• Experience mentoring or leading technical professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead Knowledge & Context Architecture activities across the Americas with strategic customers and account teams.
• Act as a hands-on senior architect, leading discovery, workshops and design sessions.
• Help customers strengthen data foundations, including data models, metadata and governance.
• Design architectures combining structured and unstructured data for trusted AI context.
• Turn business concepts into usable enterprise knowledge and data products.
• Develop approaches for capturing and curating context, including ontologies and semantic models.
• Assess AI context for completeness, accuracy and trustworthiness.
• Lead workshops and proofs of concept with Americas customers.
• Create reusable architecture assets and guidance from customer work.
• Identify opportunities where Knowledge & Context Architecture adds value and supports demand creation.
• Mentor architects across the Americas and build deeper skills.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

SQL proficiency

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Python

SQL

AWS / Azure / GCP

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architectural activities across the Americas, collaborating with strategic customers and Teradata teams to create practical foundations for AI. You will guide discovery, design sessions and governance, shaping data models and metadata strategies for enterprise knowledge and AI applications.

You will apply data engineering and modelling skills to build scalable data architectures, mentored by senior leaders and working