Senior Cloud Data & AI Architect

Siri InfoSolutions Inc; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Siri InfoSolutions Inc. in Dallas, TX is seeking a Senior Cloud Data & AI Architect to lead modernization of data platforms from on-prem to cloud and to design scalable data pipelines and AI value chains.

The role emphasizes governance, security, and Gen AI strategies, with hands-on work on Snowflake, Databricks, and cloud platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP, and implementing RAG pipelines and memory management.

Qualifications

• Experience assembling enterprise data platforms including data lake and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong background in data governance, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to design data products, data mesh, and medallion architecture implementations.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, and CrewAI.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of data platforms from on-prem to cloud for large customers.
• Architect scalable data pipelines (batch/real-time) and analytics platforms.
• Define and enforce data governance, metadata, lineage, and quality standards.
• Design AI and Gen AI solutions across data value chain and implement RAG pipelines with memory and tools.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to set data strategy and drive adoption of responsible AI frameworks.

Skills

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Agent frameworks

Python

Data governance

Security protocols

Enterprise data architecture

Data mesh

Medallion Architecture

MLOps pipelines

Tools

LangChain

AutoGen

CrewAI

OpenAI APIs

Anthropic Claude

FAISS

Pinecone

Weaviate

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Job Title: Senior Cloud Data & AI Architect

Location: Dallas, TX

Full-Time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Architect enterprise data platforms for data lake, Lakehouse, streaming systems.
• Design data integration and data pipeline patterns
• Should be able to evaluate new technologies and run proof of concepts.
• Should be able to set data and AI strategy for data organization.
• Established data Quality, lineage and metadata standards
• Ensured compliance with privacy, security and regulation
• Drives adoption of responsible AI frameworks
• Created architectural guardrails
• Drive consensus on standards (eg data contracts, lineage) across different data organizations
• Reviews design and elevate architectural thinking across teams
• Creates reusable patterns, templates and reference architectures
• Very strong understanding and experience on Data products, data mesh and Medallion Architecture implementation
• Design and implement AI and Gen AI solution for data value chain
• Strong experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Deep understanding of MCPs, ReAct, Tree of Thought, and AutoGPT-style reasoning.
• Hands-on with Python, OpenAI APIs, Anthropic Claude, Vector DBs (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate).
• Experience with A2A orchestration, agent memory strategies, and tool calling.
• Strong grasp of enterprise architecture, data governance, and security protocols.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and MLOps pipelines.
• Very strong understanding and experience on Data products, data mesh and Medallion Architecture implementation
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with memory, context management, and tool usage.
• Define Model Context Protocol (MCPs) to chain reasoning, retrieval, and action models.
• Hands-on with Python, OpenAI APIs, Anthropic Claude, Vector DBs (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate).

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data platform modernization from on-prem to cloud for banking and insurance clients.
• Architect and implement scalable solutions using Snowflake and Databricks on AWS and Azure
• Design and implement AI and Gen AI solution for data value chain
• Design data integration pipelines (batch, real-time, big data) and analytics platforms
• Define and implement data governance, quality, meta data, and lineage frameworks and should be able to leverage GenAI capabilities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT stakeholders
• Architect Agentic AI ecosystems using LLMs, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Define Model Context Protocol (MCPs) to chain reasoning, retrieval, and action models.
• Design Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocols for collaborative multi-agent workflows.
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with memory, context management, and tool usage.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• 15 20 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, and analytics platforms
• Strong consulting experience in large BFSI transformation programs
• Hands-on expertise with Snowflake and Databricks (Lakehouse architecture)
• Design and implement AI and Gen AI solution for data value chain
• Very strong understanding and experience on Data products, data mesh and Medallion Architecture implementation
• Experience with cloud data services in aws,azure,gcp
• Strong background in data integration, reporting, and big data ecosystems
• Experience working in regulated environments with data governance and compliance requirements
• Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership skills