Lead Enterprise AI & Data Architecture

Vizient; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient seeks a senior solutions architect to lead end-to-end data, analytics, and AI product architectures. You will define technical strategies for enterprise platforms, design scalable data models and pipelines, and collaborate with product, engineering and data science teams to deliver production-ready solutions.

You will guide architectural standards, evaluate new technologies, and mentor teams across the enterprise, emphasizing governance, security and data quality in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading enterprise data and analytics architecture.
• Proven ability to design scalable data pipelines and platforms.
• Experience with Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.
• Strong collaboration with product, engineering and data science teams.
• Knowledge of security, governance and data quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data/analytics architecture for complex, cross-domain products.
• Define technical strategies and blueprints for enterprise data platforms.
• Design scalable data architectures, pipelines, semantic layers and data products.
• Establish patterns for scalability, performance, security, governance and observability.
• Evaluate technologies, run proofs of concept, and advise on investments.
• Design AI/ML architectures including RAG, embeddings and LLM orchestration.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into production solutions.
• Guide teams in applying architectural standards and reusable patterns.
• Create architecture diagrams and technical documentation for audiences.
• Mentor teams and promote consistent architecture practices across products.

Skills

Solution architecture

Leadership

AI/ML design

Data modeling

Cross-domain collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

RAG

LLM orchestration

Job description

Vizient seeks a senior solutions architect to lead end-to-end data, analytics, and AI product architectures. You will define technical strategies for enterprise platforms, design scalable data models and pipelines, and collaborate with product, engineering and data science teams to deliver production-ready solutions.

You will guide architectural standards, evaluate new technologies, and mentor teams across the enterprise, emphasizing governance, security and data quality in a fast-paced