Engagement Lead Architect- Data & Agentic AI

HITACHI ENERGY CZECH REPUBLIC S.R.O.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Czech Republic S.R.O. is seeking a senior cloud and data engineering leader to drive client engagements from AI ambition to production agents.

You will own the client relationship, architecture direction, and business outcomes, leading a small senior team of architects, engineers and consultants. Responsibilities include discovering and shaping use cases, steering prototypes, and delivering value with governance, security and proper controls.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data, analytics and AI; leading client programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements from AI ambition to production agents.
• Own client relationship, architecture direction, and business outcomes.
• Lead a senior team of architects, engineers and consultants.
• Shape a portfolio of agent use cases by value, data readiness and risk.
• Present go/no-go with scope, team, plan and value for delivery.

Skills

Data & AI leadership

Client-facing leadership

Databricks depth

GenAI deployment

Executive presence

Semantic layers

Commercial judgment

Tools

Databricks

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Function

Cloud & Data Engineering

Our Company

We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description

You will lead client engagements that take enterprises from AI ambition to agents in production. You own the client relationship, the architecture direction and the business outcome, and you lead a small senior team of architects, engineers and consultants. Engagements start in consulting mode - assess, shape, prototype - and move to delivery once the use case is proven.

What you will do:

Discover and shape

• Align executive sponsors on goals, success measures, scope and decision rights.
• Assess the client's data, analytics and AI landscape: platforms, data readiness, semantics, governance and operating model.
• Shape a portfolio of agent use cases by value, data readiness and risk; recommend where to start.
• Steer a working prototype and make the build-vs-buy calls across hyperscaler, lakehouse, open-source and partner options.
• Present a clear go / no-go with scope, team, plan and value case for delivery.

Deliver

• Act as design authority for the data, context and agent architecture.
• Run delivery governance: plan, RAID, status, steering committees and change control.
• Own the value case: baseline, KPIs and the readout of results against baseline.
• Ensure security, identity, entitlements, evaluations and human approval are in place before agents act on business systems.
• Coach the team and grow the relationship through evidence-based next steps.

Mandatory Experience and Skills to bring:

• 15+ years in data, analytics and AI, including 5+ years leading client-facing programs for large enterprises.
• Hands-on architecture depth on Databricks or similar (Unity Catalog, Genie, Mosaic AI / Agent Bricks, MLflow) and at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
• At least one GenAI or agent solution taken into production, with evaluation, guardrails and access controls.
• Strong grasp of semantic layers, business glossaries, ontologies and knowledge graphs, and how agents use them through tools and MCP.
• Executive presence: you frame choices for senior leaders and get decisions made.
• Commercial judgment in scoping, estimation and change control.

Nice to have experience & skills:

• Manufacturing, automotive or supply-chain industry experience.
• Databricks or cloud professional certifications.
• Experience with agent observability, AI FinOps, agent registries or gates.
• Prior consulting or professional-services leadership.

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About us

We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry‑leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We are always looking for new ways to find online for... ??? .

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do ou