Chief Data & AI Platform Architect

Baker Tilly (US); Redwood Valley (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly seeks a Head of Data & AI Platform to lead the firm’s data architecture and AI product foundations, including ontology, knowledge graphs, and learning loops. This role combines hands-on practice with strategic direction and steers a senior team across the U.S.

and India to build scalable intelligence foundations. The leader will own data modeling, pipelines, and data contracts while partnering with product and engineering to ensure high-quality AI products that are well-governed and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree preferred.
• 15 years of experience across data architecture, data engineering, and data platforms, including technical leadership of senior engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering knowledge systems embedded within products, including ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or similar capabilities that directly support applications.

Responsibilities

• Own the Baker Tilly Intelligence Layer, including the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the ontology, knowledge graph, and judgment graph that determine what the firm’s AI products know and how practitioner judgment is captured and reused.
• Design and build ontology, knowledge-graph, and judgment-graph capabilities in partnership with engineering teams across the U.S. and India.
• Define how practitioner decisions, corrections, outcomes, and system traces are captured, curated, approved, and transformed into reusable intelligence.
• Establish retrieval semantics across graph- and vector-based approaches, with retrieval and grounding quality measured through evaluation.
• Own the data layer end to end, including data architecture, data modeling, product data models, the product data plane, extraction and integration pipelines, and data quality.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Knowledge graphs

Machine learning

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

GraphRAG

Job description

Baker Tilly seeks a Head of Data & AI Platform to lead the firm’s data architecture and AI product foundations, including ontology, knowledge graphs, and learning loops. This role combines hands-on practice with strategic direction and steers a senior team across the U.S.

and India to build scalable intelligence foundations. The leader will own data modeling, pipelines, and data contracts while partnering with product and engineering to ensure high-quality AI products that are well-governed and