Senior AI Platform Architect: Enterprise Data & Lakehouse

QLYS_US Qualys, Inc.; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Qualys, Inc. is seeking an experienced leader to define and lead the reference architecture for third-party AI products within IT, enabling secure, scalable agentic capabilities and accelerating enterprise-wide AI adoption.

You will design, scope, and implement complex AI workflows across data, integration, and governance domains. You will own the end-to-end design and build of a modern lake house and AI ecosystem—powering intelligent automation, analytics, and global-scale AI use cases with

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or data architecture.
• Proven knowledge of AI architectures (LLM serving, RAG, agentic orchestration).
• Strong observability, reliability engineering, and cost controls in production AI.
• Excellent executive communication and ability to drive decisions under ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Define the architectural vision and guardrails for AI-first capabilities.
• Design reference architectures for agent runtimes and enterprise integrations.
• Drive non-functional requirements and establish SLOs.
• Translate requirements into scalable AI flow architectures grounded in business context.
• Develop data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineering and business teams to deliver robust data solutions.
• Contribute to foundational MLOps/LLMOps readiness.

Skills

Data engineering

Platform engineering

Data architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Python

SQL

Executive communication

Architectural leadership

Tools

Vector databases

Job description

Qualys, Inc. is seeking an experienced leader to define and lead the reference architecture for third-party AI products within IT, enabling secure, scalable agentic capabilities and accelerating enterprise-wide AI adoption.

You will design, scope, and implement complex AI workflows across data, integration, and governance domains. You will own the end-to-end design and build of a modern lake house and AI ecosystem—powering intelligent automation, analytics, and global-scale AI use cases with