Data & AI Solution Architect — Hybrid in Chicago

HAVI België; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model with flexibility

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

HAVI Belgium is seeking a Solution Architect, Data & AI in Chicago to lead end-to-end design of a comprehensive supply chain solution portfolio across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

The role bridges global planning with analytics, guiding architectural runway, modernization efforts, and PoC implementations for AI/ML initiatives while ensuring security, privacy, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (master’s preferred).
• 6+ years across IT disciplines including development, integration, middleware, cloud, or data analytics.
• Deep understanding of supply chain planning and enterprise platforms that support them.
• Proven forecasting capability and enabling ML-driven forecasting solutions.
• Hands-on experience with data platforms, including warehouses, lakehouses, data transformation pipelines, and MDM.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns (APIs, event streaming, MFT) and iPaaS/middleware in complex B2B ecosystems.
• Cloud experience across Azure, AWS, and GCP; designing scalable, cloud-native architectures.
• Expertise in designing for performance, scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Business Strategy & Blueprinting
• Architectural translation of requirements into actionable technical blueprints
• Product lifecycle alignment with product owners to maintain a robust architectural runway
• Impact assessment of changes on business capabilities
• Technology portfolio orchestration and modernization
• Innovation & R&D: PoCs for AI/ML trends and practical business use
• Cross-domain design spanning cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments
• Strategic road mapping from current-state to future-state architecture
• Agile integration: consultancy to decentralized Agile teams
• Governance: standards, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance
• Responsible AI governance and enterprise alignment
• CoP: mentoring solution owners and lead developers

Skills

Application Development

Integration

Middleware

Cloud Architecture

Data & Analytics

APIs

Event Streaming

MFT

Azure

AWS

GCP

Performance & Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Oracle

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

AI/ML solution patterns

Generative AI architectures

AI service integrations

Python

Java

SQL

Cloud-native patterns

Job description

HAVI Belgium is seeking a Solution Architect, Data & AI in Chicago to lead end-to-end design of a comprehensive supply chain solution portfolio across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

The role bridges global planning with analytics, guiding architectural runway, modernization efforts, and PoC implementations for AI/ML initiatives while ensuring security, privacy, and cost efficiency.