Remote Lead AI Architect: Enterprise Data & AI Platform

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Banyan is hiring its first Lead AI Architect to design, build, and run a centralized data and AI platform powering internal teams. You will create a governed data lake on AWS and a reference AI architecture, with security guardrails and cost controls, while writing code and leading a platform team.

You will partner with embedded analysts, define patterns, and ensure production-ready capabilities with strong ROI for multiple verticals. This is a hands-on leadership role with long-term impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building data and AI platforms in production at scale.
• Deep AWS expertise across S3, IAM, KMS, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, Redshift, SageMaker, Bedrock, and container services.
• Strong data architecture chops: lakehouse patterns, Iceberg/Delta/Hudi, ingestion and lineage.
• Experience with modern AI/ML platform patterns: feature stores, model registries, experiment tracking.
• Data safety mindset: PII handling, access control, and governance.
• Hands-on coder: Python and SQL; comfortable with Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Leader who has mentored engineers and set hiring bars; excellent communicator.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the target-state data and AI architecture; document trade-offs.
• Design and build the AWS-centric data lake including storage, cataloging, and lineage.
• Stand up the AI experimentation layer with model access via multiple providers.
• Establish data contracts, schema standards, and a domain model for new sources.
• Collaborate with Senior Business Analysts across finance, M&A, and growth to translate use cases to requirements.
• Define security, privacy, and AI safety guardrails for data handling.
• Stay hands-on: write code, ship infrastructure, review PRs, and debug production issues.
• Build and lead a platform team; mentor engineers and set engineering quality standards.
• Own platform reliability, observability, and cost; set SLOs and monitor usage.
• Represent Banyan’s AI and data architecture to executives, portfolio companies, and partners.

Skills

Data/AI platform experience

AWS expertise

Python

SQL

Terraform / AWS CDK

Communication

Leadership / mentoring

Architecture decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Master's degree (plus)

Tools

S3

Glue

Lake Formation

Athena

Redshift

SageMaker

Bedrock

EKS / ECS

Snowflake

Databricks

Terraform

Job description

Banyan is hiring its first Lead AI Architect to design, build, and run a centralized data and AI platform powering internal teams. You will create a governed data lake on AWS and a reference AI architecture, with security guardrails and cost controls, while writing code and leading a platform team.

You will partner with embedded analysts, define patterns, and ensure production-ready capabilities with strong ROI for multiple verticals. This is a hands-on leadership role with long-term impact.