Senior Data & AI Architect on Google Cloud

Trigint Solutions; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Trigint Solutions seeks a highly experienced Lead Data & AI Architect & Strategy consultant to guide a strategic Data and AI transformation for a leading financial-services client in Charlotte, leveraging Google Cloud Platform.

You will govern the data and AI architecture across the transformation lifecycle, drive key technology decisions, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, secure enterprise-grade solutions using Vertex AI, BigQuery, and related GCP services.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Data, AI, Cloud or Enterprise Architecture.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform data and AI services, including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Dataproc and Vertex AI.
• Strong experience designing modern enterprise data platforms and architectures, including data lakes/lakehouses, data warehouses, data products and streaming platforms.
• Proven experience designing both batch and real-time/streaming data architectures.
• Strong experience with AI/ML architecture and practical experience with Generative AI and/or agentic AI architectures.
• Strong understanding of RAG, vector search, embeddings, knowledge architectures, AI orchestration and integration of AI agents with enterprise systems and data.
• Experience designing secure, governed and production-grade AI platforms.
• Strong understanding of data security, governance, privacy, lineage and data quality.
• Proven experience working within financial services, banking or other highly regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Data and AI architecture for the transformation program and establish the target-state technology vision.
• Lead current-state architecture assessments, identify technical gaps and define the target-state architecture and modernization strategy.
• Translate business and technology requirements into scalable, secure and implementation-ready architecture.
• Define architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards and reusable patterns for enterprise adoption.
• Drive architecture decisions across data, AI, cloud, integration, security, governance and observability.
• Lead architecture governance, design reviews and technical decision-making throughout the program.

Skills

Data Architecture

Cloud Architecture

Google Cloud Platform

Enterprise Architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

AI/ML Architecture

DevOps/MLOps

Security & Governance

Executive Communication

Tools

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Dataflow/Beam

Pub/Sub

Dataproc

Vertex AI

Job description

Trigint Solutions seeks a highly experienced Lead Data & AI Architect & Strategy consultant to guide a strategic Data and AI transformation for a leading financial-services client in Charlotte, leveraging Google Cloud Platform.

You will govern the data and AI architecture across the transformation lifecycle, drive key technology decisions, and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, secure enterprise-grade solutions using Vertex AI, BigQuery, and related GCP services.