Senior AI/ML Data Platform Architect

4A Consulting, LLC; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Flexible work options

Work-life balance

Job summary

4A Consulting, LLC in Baltimore, MD, seeks a Senior AI/ML Data Platform Engineer to lead architecture, development, and governance of enterprise data products and AI-enabled services for state agencies. You will design scalable data platforms, real-time streaming, data quality, and API integration while mentoring teams and shaping long-term platform strategy.

The role emphasizes data mesh, federated architectures, and secure data delivery across agencies, focusing on trustworthy AI-ready data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Data Science, Engineering, or related field; master's preferred.
• 10+ years in data engineering, ML engineering, or data platform development.
• 12+ years of computer experience in information systems design.
• Expert SQL and strong Python; production data systems experience.
• Cloud data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP with listed services.
• Production streaming tech: Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming.
• Strong data modeling, patterns: data vault, lakehouse, data mesh.
• Hands-on with data quality, catalogs, lineage, APIs, contracts, event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define data product standards, lifecycle management, ownership, quality tiers, and platform roadmaps; design APIs, schemas, contracts, SLAs.
• Architect batch and streaming pipelines; low-latency feature delivery for online ML inference.
• Implement data quality, lineage, access controls, audit logging with governance teams.
• Design AI-powered data services: entity matching, classification, anomaly detection, semantic search, enrichment, ML scoring, and LLM-driven transformation.
• Lead cross-agency collaboration, mentor engineers, and represent the platform in reviews and vendor assessments.
• Maintain ADRs, data product standards, and operational runbooks; improve scalability and cost efficiency.

Skills

SQL

Python

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Data modeling

Streaming data

API design

ML integration

Data mesh

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS Redshift

Azure Synapse

BigQuery

Snowflake

Apache Kafka

Kinesis

Airflow

Job description

4A Consulting, LLC in Baltimore, MD, seeks a Senior AI/ML Data Platform Engineer to lead architecture, development, and governance of enterprise data products and AI-enabled services for state agencies. You will design scalable data platforms, real-time streaming, data quality, and API integration while mentoring teams and shaping long-term platform strategy.

The role emphasizes data mesh, federated architectures, and secure data delivery across agencies, focusing on trustworthy AI-ready data