Lead AI & Data Architect — Enterprise AI & Data Platforms

SA Recycling LLC; Orange (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SA Recycling LLC seeks a Lead AI & Data Architect to design scalable enterprise data platforms and engineer AI solutions that connect to business systems. You will work hands-on, architecting data models, AI agents and secure access patterns while guiding a team of developers.

Ideal candidates have senior-level data architecture experience, strong Azure Fabric/Azure AI Foundry expertise, and production-ready AI skills including Python, SQL, and API integrations.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise data architecture and engineering experience.
• Strong Azure data platform and Fabric expertise.
• Hands-on Python development and API integration in production systems.
• Advanced SQL, dimensional modeling, data warehousing and semantic modeling.
• Experience with RAG, vector search, grounding and enterprise knowledge retrieval.
• Familiarity with Entra, RLS, governance and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Architect and modernize enterprise data platforms using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and data warehouse tech.
• Design dimensional models and semantic layers for governed datasets.
• Define scalable ingestion, transformation and orchestration patterns.
• Architect Azure AI Foundry solutions and enterprise AI apps.
• Develop AI agents and integration components with MCP where appropriate.
• Build secure data access patterns and enterprise controls.
• Collaborate with SQL developers and Power Platform team on integrations.
• Translate business requirements into production-ready architecture and AI solutions.

Skills

Data architecture

Azure

Python

SQL & DW

RAG & vector search

API integration

Security governance

Leadership

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Power Platform

Job description

SA Recycling LLC seeks a Lead AI & Data Architect to design scalable enterprise data platforms and engineer AI solutions that connect to business systems. You will work hands-on, architecting data models, AI agents and secure access patterns while guiding a team of developers.

Ideal candidates have senior-level data architecture experience, strong Azure Fabric/Azure AI Foundry expertise, and production-ready AI skills including Python, SQL, and API integrations.