Senior Data & AI Architect — Hybrid, Enterprise AI & Governance

VDart Inc; Auburn Hills (MI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

VDart Inc. seeks a Sr. Data & AI Architect for a contract role in Auburn Hills, MI, hybrid work arrangement. You will define end-to-end architecture for AI-powered data solutions across enterprise platforms and lead cross-functional teams in Architecture, Security, Data, and Operations.

You will establish governance, security, and responsible AI guardrails, specify canonical data models, API standards, and multi-agent ecosystems, and translate business needs into scalable technical roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Solution, Enterprise, Cloud, or Data Integration Architecture.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP and integrating enterprise platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Agentic AI, APIs, event-driven architectures, security, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for AI-powered data solutions across enterprise platforms.
• Define collaboration frameworks supporting sequential, parallel, event-driven, conditional, and human-in-the-loop interactions.
• Translate business requirements and workflows into scalable data and AI architectures and roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership across Architecture, Engineering, Security, Data, and Operations teams with governance standards.
• Define security architecture across all interaction layers and governance controls.
• Establish responsible AI guardrails covering data privacy, prompt security, model safety, compliance, and human approval workflows.
• Define enterprise data architecture, canonical models, API standards, and knowledge management frameworks.
• Define RAG or similar approaches enabling secure access to structured and unstructured data.
• Drive data privacy, integration, and management practices for governed accessibility across platforms.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Agentic AI

APIs

Event-driven architecture

Security

Governance

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Multi-agent architectures

Data integration

Job description

VDart Inc. seeks a Sr. Data & AI Architect for a contract role in Auburn Hills, MI, hybrid work arrangement. You will define end-to-end architecture for AI-powered data solutions across enterprise platforms and lead cross-functional teams in Architecture, Security, Data, and Operations.

You will establish governance, security, and responsible AI guardrails, specify canonical data models, API standards, and multi-agent ecosystems, and translate business needs into scalable technical roadmaps.