Chief Architect, Data & AI Platforms

ITSMF; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking an IT Director, Data and AI Architecture to define scalable, secure data platforms and AI-ready ecosystems across the enterprise. You will guide architecture strategy, review designs, and mentor architects and engineers while aligning with business objectives.

This hands-on leader partners with engineering and business leaders to accelerate analytics, governance, and data product standards, driving cutting-edge cloud architectures using Snowflake, Databricks, and Azure.

Qualifications

• Architect scalable, secure, and AI-ready data platforms.
• Define enterprise data architecture standards.
• Mentor architects and engineers and review designs.
• Collaborate with engineering and business leaders on data strategy.
• Drive architecture decisions across the data landscape.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture reviews for major data and analytics initiatives.
• Advise on enterprise data strategy and architecture decisions.
• Define reference architectures for Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric, and Azure Data Services.
• Drive data lakehouse, medallion architectures, semantic layers, metadata services, and data observability.
• Define canonical data models and data product standards.
• Review engineering designs for scalability, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Partner with engineering teams to accelerate delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Chair architecture review boards for critical data, analytics, and AI investments.
• Maintain hands-on awareness of modern data engineering, cloud, analytics, and AI.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Architecture Reviews

Data Strategy

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data

Data Lakehouse

Medallion Arch

Semantic Layers

Metadata Services

Vector DBs

AI Platforms

Data Governance

Job description

Abbott is seeking an IT Director, Data and AI Architecture to define scalable, secure data platforms and AI-ready ecosystems across the enterprise. You will guide architecture strategy, review designs, and mentor architects and engineers while aligning with business objectives.

This hands-on leader partners with engineering and business leaders to accelerate analytics, governance, and data product standards, driving cutting-edge cloud architectures using Snowflake, Databricks, and Azure.