Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect

Talentify; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient seeks a senior architect to lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex data, analytics, and AI products in Chicago, IL. You will define strategic blueprints, design scalable data ecosystems using Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, and guide cross-functional teams toward sustainable engineering practices.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data science to translate requirements into production-ready solutions and shape technology roadmaps across

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture for cross-domain data, analytics, and AI products.
• Define technical strategies and architectural blueprints for enterprise data platforms with Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
• Design scalable data architectures, pipelines, semantic layers, domain models, and data products.
• Establish architectural patterns for scalability, performance, reliability, security, governance, data quality, observability, and business continuity.
• Evaluate technologies, lead proofs of concept, and recommend solutions aligned with business goals.
• Design architectures for AI/ML and Generative AI, including RAG, embeddings, agents, and LLM orchestration.
• Partner with product, engineering, data science, platform, and business clients to translate requirements into production-ready solutions.
• Guide engineering teams in adopting architectural standards while balancing delivery and sustainability.
• Develop architecture diagrams, reference architectures, and technical documentation for stakeholders.
• Mentor engineering teams and advocate for consistent architecture practices enterprise-wide.

Skills

Solution architecture

Databricks Lakehouse

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

AI/ML architectures

LLM orchestration

Mentoring teams

Architecture documentation

Job description

Vizient seeks a senior architect to lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex data, analytics, and AI products in Chicago, IL. You will define strategic blueprints, design scalable data ecosystems using Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, and guide cross-functional teams toward sustainable engineering practices.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data science to translate requirements into production-ready solutions and shape technology roadmaps across