Chief Data & AI Platform Architect

Baker Tilly International; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly International seeks a visionary Head of Data & AI Platform to lead the firm’s data and intelligence foundation powering AI products. You will own the ontology, knowledge graph, and retrieval layers, while guiding data engineering, data science, and ML with a hands-on leadership style across the U.S. and India.

You will shape standards, runbooks, and roadmaps, and partner with product and architecture to deliver scalable, high-quality AI capabilities that drive client value.

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience across data architecture, data engineering, and data platforms.
• Experience designing knowledge systems with ontologies and knowledge graphs.
• Hands-on with data, ML, and data science in product contexts.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data & AI Platform strategy, architecture, and roadmap.
• Lead data, knowledge-graph, ML, and data science teams across regions.
• Build scalable pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Partner with product management and engineering to embed intelligence in products.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Knowledge graphs

Ontology

Machine learning

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Job description

Baker Tilly International seeks a visionary Head of Data & AI Platform to lead the firm’s data and intelligence foundation powering AI products. You will own the ontology, knowledge graph, and retrieval layers, while guiding data engineering, data science, and ML with a hands-on leadership style across the U.S. and India.

You will shape standards, runbooks, and roadmaps, and partner with product and architecture to deliver scalable, high-quality AI capabilities that drive client value.