Remote Enterprise AI Architect & Data Solutions Lead

ARA; Albuquerque (NM); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ARA seeks an experienced AI Technologist to drive discovery, design, and adoption of enterprise AI capabilities across the organization. This greenfield role focuses on leveraging LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and automation to deliver business value while aligning with security and governance standards.

You will collaborate with business units, engineers, and functional teams to identify high-value use cases, assess AI readiness, and guide secure, scalable AI implementations on on-premises and cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Data Engineering, or related STEM field.
• 8–10 years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years supporting AI, NLP, RAG, and related solutions.
• Experience designing vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
• Experience working with AI platforms, Kubernetes, and cloud AI environments (Azure Foundry, AWS Bedrock).
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities to integrate AI into processes.
• Design data structures, metadata models, naming conventions, and information architecture standards.
• Design AI solution approaches using LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and orchestration frameworks.
• Support onboarding new AI projects by identifying data requirements, assessing data readiness, and defining ingestion and preparation workflows.
• Develop processes to measure and improve data quality across AI datasets and workflows.
• Define and support data preparation, ingestion, and retrieval workflows for production AI applications, RAG, and AI agent solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data sources, use cases, and constraints.
• Create and maintain documentation for data standards, transformation logic, onboarding procedures, and quality controls.
• Partner with AI, software, platform, and security teams to ensure scalable, secure data workflows.

Skills

Analytical skills

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Troubleshooting

Problem solving

Python

Golang

Typescript

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Data Engineering/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure Foundry

AWS Bedrock

Pandas

Spark

Airflow

dbt

Git

CI/CD

Job description

ARA seeks an experienced AI Technologist to drive discovery, design, and adoption of enterprise AI capabilities across the organization. This greenfield role focuses on leveraging LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and automation to deliver business value while aligning with security and governance standards.

You will collaborate with business units, engineers, and functional teams to identify high-value use cases, assess AI readiness, and guide secure, scalable AI implementations on on-premises and cloud