Data and Knowledge Architect

Apex Systems; Chandler (AZ); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with match

ESPP

HSA

Job summary

Everforth Apex in Chandler, AZ is seeking a Data and Knowledge Architect to lead the design, governance, and improvement of data and knowledge foundations that support AI and agentic capabilities across Network Services. You will work with both structured and unstructured data to ensure information is defined, organized, governed, and available for trusted AI consumption.

This role provides senior leadership in standards, guardrails, and procedures for curating and preparing operational assets

Qualifications

• Experience engineering and governing both structured and unstructured data for analytics, automation, search, or AI-enabled solutions.
• Advanced understanding of data modeling, transformation, storage, indexing, retrieval, and metadata management.
• Ability to define enterprise-ready standards for data, documents, and knowledge artifacts.
• Experience with data quality controls and governance in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and improvement of data and knowledge assets for AI-enabled workflows.
• Define standards for documentation, telemetry, and metadata for AI consumption.
• Partner with SMEs to translate operational knowledge into governed assets.
• Build pipelines and validation routines to improve AI context assets.
• Collaborate across engineering, architecture, operations, and governance teams.

Skills

Data modeling

Data governance

Knowledge engineering

AI data preparation

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

# Data and Knowledge ArchitectApply**Job#: 3056265****Job Description:**Data and Knowledge Architect**Location:** Chandler, Arizona (Hybrid)Role OverviewThis role is responsible for leading the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the data and knowledge foundations that support AI and agentic capabilities across Network Services. The individual in this role works across both structured and unstructured data sources to ensure information is defined, organized, governed, and made available in a manner suitable for trusted AI consumption. This position provides senior-level leadership in defining standards, guidelines, and guardrails for how operational assets are curated, controlled, and prepared for model use.Key Responsibilities* Lead the design and improvement of data and knowledge assets that support AI and agentic use-cases across Network Services.* Define and maintain standards for how documentation, configurations, telemetry, metadata, policies, and operational knowledge should be organized and prepared for AI consumption.* Partner with subject matter experts to understand network technologies, operational context, and domain-specific knowledge.* Design and guide scalable methods for storing, governing, indexing, validating, and retrieving context assets for AI-enabled solutions.* Establish and evolve preventative and detective controls that identify and reduce data quality, metadata quality, and knowledge quality issues.* Lead remediation efforts for data and knowledge quality issues by identifying root causes and defining corrective actions.* Define expectations for ownership, stewardship, lineage, freshness, and governance across relevant data and knowledge domains.* Build or guide the development of pipelines, transformations, and validation routines that improve the quality and accessibility of AI-relevant context assets.* Work across engineering, architecture, operations, and governance teams to ensure data and knowledge practices align with enterprise controls and standards.* Monitor and communicate the health, readiness, and quality of AI-relevant data and knowledge assets.Required Qualifications* Experience engineering and governing both structured and unstructured data for analytics, automation, search, or AI-enabled solutions.* Advanced understanding of data modeling, transformation, storage, indexing, retrieval, and metadata management patterns.* Demonstrated ability to define enterprise-ready standards for data, documents, and knowledge artifacts.* Experience establishing and improving data quality, metadata quality, and knowledge quality controls.* Knowledge of preventative and detective controls used to identify and remediate issues related to data and documentation quality.* Experience with knowledge sources such as policies, standards, configurations, telemetry, and operational documentation.* Ability to work with subject matter experts to interpret operational knowledge and translate it into reusable, governed assets.* Working understanding of network technologies, infrastructure concepts, and service models.* Experience defining data ownership, stewardship, lineage, and governance expectations in a regulated enterprise environment.* Familiarity with AI-oriented data preparation concepts, including grounding, retrieval-readiness, and context structuring.* Ability to design scalable approaches for storing, governing, and retrieving contextual assets used by AI-enabled workflows.* Experience leading or influencing cross-functional work across engineering, architecture, operations, and governance stakeholders.* Strong written and verbal communication skills.Preferred Qualifications* Experience mentoring less senior engineers on data engineering, knowledge engineering, and control design practices.* Ability to contribute to the continuous improvement of data and knowledge management practices.* Experience documenting standards, definitions, controls, and transformations for downstream teams. *Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.**Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://www.apexsystems.com/privacy-policy**Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.**Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.**If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [e-mail] or 804-523-8228. Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.**UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.***Employee Type:** Contract**Location:** Chandler, AZ, US**Job Type:****Date Posted:** October 16, 2026**Pay Range:** $68 - $70 per hour