Senior Architect, Knowledge & Context for AI

Teradata; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture activities across the Americas. You will work directly with strategic customers, prospects and Teradata teams to create practical, trusted foundations for AI.

You will combine data architecture, data modelling and data engineering with modern AI concepts, contributing to the design of knowledge platforms and context for AI agents.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead Knowledge & Context Architecture activities across the Americas with strategic customers and account teams.
• Act as hands-on senior architect, leading discovery, workshops and technical engagements.
• Strengthen data foundations including metadata, lineage and governance for AI readiness.
• Design architectures uniting structured/unstructured data, metadata and business meaning for AI applications.
• Turn business concepts into usable enterprise knowledge through data modelling and ontologies.
• Develop practical approaches for capturing and curating context with semantic models and AI-native data products.
• Lead workshops and proofs of concept with Americas customers.
• Create reusable architecture assets and guidance for global use.
• Collaborate with field organization to identify demand opportunities.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data engineering

Metadata management

Semantic modelling

AI architecture

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Data Science

Tools

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Graph technologies

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture activities across the Americas. You will work directly with strategic customers, prospects and Teradata teams to create practical, trusted foundations for AI.

You will combine data architecture, data modelling and data engineering with modern AI concepts, contributing to the design of knowledge platforms and context for AI agents.