Principal Data & AI Technical Architect

Lever, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid company holidays

Paid time off

Paid parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Principal Technical Consultant to lead architectural oversight and delivery across complex client engagements in data, analytics, AI, and cloud platforms. You will shape solution strategy, coach engineering teams, and ensure secure, scalable outcomes aligned with enterprise standards.

You will drive technical governance, contribute to practice growth, mentor staff, and collaborate with executives to translate business objectives into technically sound architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 12–15+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise data, analytics, AI, cloud, or digital transformation solutions.
• Minimum seven years of consulting or professional services experience leading technical delivery for complex enterprise engagements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical leader across complex client engagements, providing architectural direction and technical oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Partner with the Principal Consultant and Project Manager to align technical execution with business objectives, delivery plans, and client expectations.
• Establish technical strategy, solution architecture, integration approaches, implementation standards, and engineering best practices.
• Review and approve technical designs, architectures, code quality, data models, integrations, and engineering deliverables.
• Guide engineering teams through complex technical challenges while ensuring consistency across multiple workstreams.
• Proactively identify technical risks, architectural concerns, performance issues, and implementation challenges, and develop mitigation strategies before they affect delivery.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for delivery teams, providing guidance on complex issues and critical client situations.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, operationally supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, design sessions, proof of concept efforts, and executive technical presentations.
• Maintain accountability for technical quality, engineering excellence, and successful technical outcomes.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural governance

Cloud platforms

Data engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

AHEAD is seeking a Principal Technical Consultant to lead architectural oversight and delivery across complex client engagements in data, analytics, AI, and cloud platforms. You will shape solution strategy, coach engineering teams, and ensure secure, scalable outcomes aligned with enterprise standards.

You will drive technical governance, contribute to practice growth, mentor staff, and collaborate with executives to translate business objectives into technically sound architectures.