Principal Data & AI Delivery Architect

SHI International Corp.; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

401K

Flexible spending

Job summary

SHI International Corp. seeks a Principal Architect to drive cross-practice delivery across data engineering, visualization, governance, and AI. You will orchestrate unified delivery plans, set standards, and guide capability leads toward scalable, repeatable architectures.

This role blends executive collaboration with hands-on architectural leadership. The ideal candidate has a decade-plus in enterprise data/AI delivery, expert depth in at least one data discipline, and strong Microsoft stack

Qualifications

• Ten or more years delivering enterprise data or AI solutions, including substantial experience in a consulting or professional services environment.
• Expert-level depth in one of data engineering, data visualization, or data governance, with working proficiency in at least two of the others sufficient to lead delivery and evaluate technical decisions across them.
• Experience taking a practice capability from assessment through to an adopted standard, with documented adoption evidence.
• Ability to lead technical delivery across more than one discipline simultaneously on large or complex engagements.
• Hands-on delivery experience within the Microsoft data and AI ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery approach on large, multi-disciplinary engagements spanning data engineering, data visualization, data governance, and AI.
• Orchestrate a unified solution approach across capability leads, integrating each discipline’s technical direction into one coherent delivery plan.
• Own delivery approach, staffing, sequencing, and de-risking across workstreams.
• Coach architects and consultants across disciplines on delivery approach, consulting judgment, and technical decision-making.

Skills

Cross-Practice Leadership

Delivery Leadership

AI experience

Data engineering

Data visualization

Data governance

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related technical field

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data services

Microsoft Purview

Copilot Studio

Microsoft Foundry

Job description

SHI International Corp. seeks a Principal Architect to drive cross-practice delivery across data engineering, visualization, governance, and AI. You will orchestrate unified delivery plans, set standards, and guide capability leads toward scalable, repeatable architectures.

This role blends executive collaboration with hands-on architectural leadership. The ideal candidate has a decade-plus in enterprise data/AI delivery, expert depth in at least one data discipline, and strong Microsoft stack