Senior Architect, Knowledge & Context for AI

Teradata; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead the Americas region. You will guide architecture activities across strategic customers, applying data modelling, semantic modelling and AI-enabled data platforms to build trusted context for analytics and AI agents.

You will combine hands-on design with leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with Product Management and Engineering to advance Teradata's Autonomous Knowledge Platform.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in data architecture, modelling, engineering or enterprise data management.
• Practical knowledge of relational data architecture and modelling approaches.
• Strong SQL skills and comfort with customer data.
• Experience with metadata management, data lineage, quality or governance.
• Experience designing architectures across data warehouses, lakehouses, cloud data platforms.
• Understanding of data-product concepts and reusable assets.
• Practical understanding of modern AI architecture (LLMs, RAG, vector search).
• Experience translating business requirements into architecture decisions.
• Ability to explain complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring technical professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture activities across the Americas with strategic customers and account teams.
• Act as hands-on senior architect; lead discovery, workshops and design sessions.
• Strengthen data foundations: models, metadata, semantics, lineage, quality and governance.
• Design architectures uniting structured/unstructured data, metadata and knowledge for AI.
• Turn business concepts into actionable architecture decisions.
• Develop approaches for capturing and curating context including ontologies and metadata.
• Help customers assess if context for AI systems is complete and trustworthy.
• Lead workshops and proofs of concept with Americas customers.
• Turn patterns into reusable architecture assets for global use.
• Collaborate with field to identify opportunities and drive value.
• Mentor architects across the Americas.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data engineering

Relational modelling

SQL

Metadata management

Data governance

Data products

AI architecture

Mentoring

Communication

Architectural leadership

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Data Science or related field

Tools

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Graph technologies / knowledge graphs

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead the Americas region. You will guide architecture activities across strategic customers, applying data modelling, semantic modelling and AI-enabled data platforms to build trusted context for analytics and AI agents.

You will combine hands-on design with leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with Product Management and Engineering to advance Teradata's Autonomous Knowledge Platform.