Engagement Lead Architect- Data & Agentic AI

Hitachi Digital Services LLC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services LLC is seeking an Engagement Lead Architect for Data and Agentic AI. You will guide client engagements from AI ambition to production agents, owning architecture direction, client relationships, and business outcomes.

You will lead a senior team of architects, engineers, and consultants through assessment, prototyping, and delivery. You will align executives, assess data landscapes, shape a data-driven portfolio, and decide build vs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data, analytics and AI.
• 5+ years leading client-facing programs for large enterprises.
• Hands-on architecture depth on Databricks or similar and at least one hyperscaler.
• At least one GenAI or agent solution in production with guardrails and access controls.
• Strong grasp of semantic layers, glossaries and knowledge graphs for agents.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements from AI ambition to production agents.
• Own architecture direction, client relationship, and business outcomes.
• Manage a senior team of architects, engineers and consultants.
• Assess data readiness, governance and operating model for AI deployments.
• Shape a portfolio of agent use cases by value, data readiness and risk.
• Oversee delivery governance, RAID, status, and change control.

Skills

Data analytics leadership

Client-facing programs

Databricks architecture

Cloud proficiency (AWS/Azure/GCP)

GenAI/agent production

Semantic layers & knowledge graphs

Executive presence

Commercial scoping & estimation

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

GenAI platforms

MLflow

Job description

Engagement Lead Architect- Data & Agentic AI

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:

• 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 gateways.
• 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're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

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