Remote Senior Director, Data & AI Architecture & Platforms

Relha LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Parental leave

Flexible work schedules

Education assistance

Employee Scholar Program

Job summary

RTX’s Enterprise Services Data and AI Organization seeks a hands-on Associate Director to architect enterprise-wide Data, Analytics and AI ecosystems. You will lead cross-functional teams across data scientists, software developers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure platforms and operational value.

The role emphasizes governance, AI/ML platforms, and cloud deployments (Azure/AWS) with a focus on driving innovation in aerospace and defense.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree in STEM, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years experience.
• 10+ years of experience in architecture, systems engineering, software, or related fields with experience in data and automation architecture, AI/ML platforms, and distributed systems.
• Experience in knowledge/property graphs, ontologies, semantic layers, and technologies for large-scale data integration.
• Experience in deployment processes, including IaC, GitOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD methodologies, and DevOps frameworks.
• Experience in advanced context management, harmonizing data governance tools, ontologies, semantic layers, and AI context.
• Experience in cloud infrastructure deployments (Azure/AWS) and Python for automation and operational management.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Data, ML and Agentic architectures across a wide range of business domains.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and tools to enhance platform capabilities, efficiency, and scalability.
• Establish and enforce best practices for data and agentic systems
• Work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, software developers, and business stakeholders to translate technology into operational value.
• Maintain and continuously improve the operational model of the platform, including monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and tools to enhance platform capabilities, robustness, efficiency, security and scalability.
• Partner with the enterprise architecture and data and AI governance teams to align the platform capabilities and controls to internal and external Legal, Cyber and Governance requirements

Skills

Architecture design

Data governance

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Collaboration

Problem solving

Education

University Degree in STEM/CS/Engineering

Advanced Degree in related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevOps

Python

Azure

AWS

Job description

RTX’s Enterprise Services Data and AI Organization seeks a hands-on Associate Director to architect enterprise-wide Data, Analytics and AI ecosystems. You will lead cross-functional teams across data scientists, software developers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure platforms and operational value.

The role emphasizes governance, AI/ML platforms, and cloud deployments (Azure/AWS) with a focus on driving innovation in aerospace and defense.