Remote Principal Architect – Master & Product Data, AI

Ferguson Enterprises, Inc.; Newport News (VA); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. seeks a Principal Solutions Architect – Master Data, Product Data & AI Automation to lead the technical architecture for Ferguson’s master data capabilities, focusing on product data, data quality, AI automation, enrichment, and cross-reference solutions.

The role requires senior-level expertise in MDM and solutions architecture, with the ability to influence across data governance, analytics, and vendor partnerships.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience with significant depth in data architecture, solutions architecture, enterprise application architecture, or related disciplines.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, or governing enterprise Master Data Management solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Management, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Deep expertise in master data architecture, including domain modeling, data quality, governance, hierarchy management, stewardship, matching, merging, survivorship, and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Defines strategic architecture direction for enterprise master data capabilities, with emphasis on product data, data quality, AI automation, enrichment, and cross-reference solutions.
• Translates complex business, data, AI, and technical requirements into scalable solution designs, roadmaps, implementation guidance, and architecture guardrails.
• Leads architecture for product data models, hierarchies, taxonomies, mappings, transformations, validation rules, match and merge logic, and enrichment workflows.
• Shapes responsible AI-enabled patterns that improve data quality, accelerate enrichment, automate repeatable analysis, and support human-in-the-loop review.
• Reviews solution architecture to ensure security, compliance, scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements are met.
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to architects, engineers, analysts, product owners, and delivery teams building or consuming master data capabilities.
• Identifies architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, and trade-offs; recommends practical solutions that balance speed, quality, cost, supportability, and long-term sustainability.
• Partners with senior business and technology leadership, vendors and third-party providers to evaluate capabilities, resolve complex issues, assess roadmaps, and align solutions to Ferguson’s master data and AI strategy.

Skills

Data architecture

Solutions architecture

Enterprise data governance

Master Data Management

AI automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake

APIs / NoSQL

Job description

Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. seeks a Principal Solutions Architect – Master Data, Product Data & AI Automation to lead the technical architecture for Ferguson’s master data capabilities, focusing on product data, data quality, AI automation, enrichment, and cross-reference solutions.

The role requires senior-level expertise in MDM and solutions architecture, with the ability to influence across data governance, analytics, and vendor partnerships.