Lead Data & AI Platform Architect

KBX Logistics; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Educational assistance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

KBX Logistics is seeking a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to steer the Enterprise Data Platform and evolve it into an AI-enabled data environment. This hands-on role demands deep AWS architecture expertise and the ability to design, implement, and govern AI capabilities across enterprise data.

You will lead architecture delivery, mentor engineers, modernize pipelines, and codify reusable patterns while aligning with security, governance, and cost objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating, designing, maintaining, or implementing AI/GenAI capabilities within enterprise data and technology environments.
• Experience designing solutions using AWS technologies such as Glue, S3, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, and IAM roles and policies.
• Exposure to applying GenAI/LLM patterns over enterprise data
• Experience applying the following fundamentals as a solution architect: RBAC, data lineage, DR/HA, modular design, cost optimization.
• Experience influencing architecture and architectural strategy across the organization at various levels

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the architecture of the Enterprise Data Platform, including integration patterns, governance controls, and platform capabilities for analytics, automation, AI, and agent-based use cases.
• Lead solution architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable data platform capabilities, including self-service access patterns, APIs, data products, metadata services, and AI-enabled experiences.
• Translate business, data, and AI opportunities into production-ready architecture patterns that balance scalability, security, maintainability, and speed to value.
• Build foundational platform capabilities including metadata management, semantic models, orchestration frameworks, secure access patterns, observability, and governance services for analytics, automation, and AI workloads.
• Serve as the hands-on architectural lead for the team’s AWS-native platform architecture, owning design decisions and contributing to implementation.
• Continuously modernize data pipelines to reduce redundancy, cost, and improve reliability and observability.
• Codify reusable architecture patterns (Terraform) and mentor data engineers to scale successful patterns across initiatives/projects.
• Serve as the solution architecture contributor in architecture review processes

Skills

AWS architecture

AI/GenAI concepts

Data platform design

RBAC and data governance

Security & IAM

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Terraform

AWS Glue

AWS S3

AWS Redshift

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

IAM

Job description

KBX Logistics is seeking a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to steer the Enterprise Data Platform and evolve it into an AI-enabled data environment. This hands-on role demands deep AWS architecture expertise and the ability to design, implement, and govern AI capabilities across enterprise data.

You will lead architecture delivery, mentor engineers, modernize pipelines, and codify reusable patterns while aligning with security, governance, and cost objectives.