Remote Data Platform & AI Architecture Lead

Frontline Education Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

401(k) with company match

Comprehensive health, dental, and visa

Job summary

Frontline Education Group is seeking a Solution Architect, Data Platform & AI within Platform Engineering to shape the architecture behind our enterprise Data Platform, AI capabilities, and reusable platform services.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering for Platform, you will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Data & Analytics, Security, and Architecture to translate complex challenges into scalable, observable platform solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years designing distributed systems and solution architectures.
• Experience designing cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platforms and building or evolving enterprise Data Platforms.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, streaming, asynchronous workflows, APIs, integrations, and data contracts.
• Experience defining data models, canonical business concepts, governance approaches, metadata, lineage, observability, and secure data access patterns.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming and messaging technologies.
• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with modern data engineering and observability technologies such as dbt, Airflow, OpenSearch, DataHub, OpenMetadata, OpenLineage, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, API design, and integration architecture.
• Experience collaborating with Product Management during discovery, solution design, and roadmap development.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, security architecture, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Shape Frontline's Data Platform architecture, defining patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, publication, and data exchange.
• Enable responsible, scalable AI with reusable capabilities for safe adoption, governance, and observability.
• Build the platform as a product by collaborating with Platform Product Management and translating needs into scalable technical approaches.
• Lead architecture through influence by providing guidance, mentoring, and architecture decision records.
• Partner from discovery through operations with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability, security, cost efficiency, and governance.

Skills

Experience designing distributed

Architectural leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Tools

AWS cloud services

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

OpenSearch/OpenTelemetry

REST APIs, GraphQL

Job description

Frontline Education Group is seeking a Solution Architect, Data Platform & AI within Platform Engineering to shape the architecture behind our enterprise Data Platform, AI capabilities, and reusable platform services.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering for Platform, you will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Data & Analytics, Security, and Architecture to translate complex challenges into scalable, observable platform solutions.