Senior Data & AI Platform Lead - Real-Time AI Orchestration

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Lead Data & AI Engineer with 9 to 12+ years of experience to architect and deploy AI solutions. In this role, you will focus on Databricks and AWS environments to manage data engineering and AI orchestration frameworks.

Key responsibilities include building metadata-driven frameworks, automating AI pipelines, and ensuring real-time data processing. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of cloud ecosystems and a track record in AI deployment.

Qualifications

• 9–12+ years in data engineering, specializing in AI deployment within cloud ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI agents using RAG and agent orchestration frameworks.
• Proficient in AWS AI/ML services and orchestration tools.
• Strong knowledge of lakehouse architecture and data modeling best practices.
• Deep experience in data orchestration and scalable AI-driven workflows.

Responsibilities

• Architect reusable data and AI engineering frameworks using Databricks.
• Deploy Delta Live Tables and automate AI pipelines on Databricks.
• Integrate real-time data stream processing with AI agents.
• Ensure seamless orchestration between AI models and data pipelines.
• Manage AI agent lifecycles using tools like SageMaker and AWS services.

Skills

Data engineering

AI deployment

Cloud ecosystems

AWS services

Databricks

Tools

SageMaker

AgentOps

Unity Catalog

AWS Glue

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a Lead Data & AI Engineer with 9 to 12+ years of experience to architect and deploy AI solutions. In this role, you will focus on Databricks and AWS environments to manage data engineering and AI orchestration frameworks.

Key responsibilities include building metadata-driven frameworks, automating AI pipelines, and ensuring real-time data processing. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of cloud ecosystems and a track record in AI deployment.