Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC); Maryland; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is seeking a Senior Data & AI Engineer to design enterprise data architectures and deliver AI-enabled solutions for analytics. This hands-on role focuses on governed data foundations and production AI capabilities across the ERO Enterprise.

Work with business and technical units to implement AI-ready data platforms, data quality, and governance aligned with NIST RMF and NERC governance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering, data architecture, or ML/AI engineering.
• Expert-level SQL and Python.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and modern warehouse architectures; Azure Data Factory preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise data models and semantic layers for analytics.
• Establish data governance, lineage, and quality controls across CEII and confidential data.
• Build and evolve data pipelines on the cloud data platform with Data Engineers and DBAs.
• Develop AI solutions (RAG, embeddings, vector stores) and productionize them.
• Implement MLOps/LLMOps practices, monitoring, and cost management.
• Architect AI platform components like vector stores and model serving infrastructure.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Snowflake

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric Dataflow

Job description

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is seeking a Senior Data & AI Engineer to design enterprise data architectures and deliver AI-enabled solutions for analytics. This hands-on role focuses on governed data foundations and production AI capabilities across the ERO Enterprise.

Work with business and technical units to implement AI-ready data platforms, data quality, and governance aligned with NIST RMF and NERC governance.