Senior Data Architect for AI-Driven Lakehouse & Pipelines

West Monroe; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401k

Equity/Stock Options

Annual Bonus

Unlimited PTO

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Architect to lead data architecture and AI/ML initiatives across industries, guiding platform selection and building scalable data pipelines. You will drive data governance, collaborate with BD teams, and mentor consultants while delivering evidence-based analytics solutions.

Leverage Databricks, Snowflake, and Fabric to design lakehouse architectures and modern data workflows, with travel up to 50%. Strong client interaction and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience, 5+ in consulting
• Strong Databricks/Snowflake expertise with lakehouse architecture
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, MLflow
• Hands-on with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG architectures
• Knowledge of Big Data methodologies and distributed architectures
• Experience with ETL and data integration
• Proven client-facing, pre-sales and business development experience
• Willingness to travel 30-50%

Responsibilities

• Provide platform guidance for Databricks, Snowflake, and/or Fabric
• Design data pipelines and structures for analysis
• Architect scalable AI/ML and Generative AI solutions on modern data platforms
• Ensure data governance, integrity and security across pipelines
• Collaborate with business development to identify client needs
• Lead code reviews and share best practices with consultants
• Coordinate with data source owners for integration with analytics platform
• Support proposals, demos, and client presentations

Skills

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Spark (Scala)

AI/ML workloads

LLMs/RAG

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Data engineering

Data lakehouse

Data governance

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

Azure SQL

Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Factory

SQL Server

Job description

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Architect to lead data architecture and AI/ML initiatives across industries, guiding platform selection and building scalable data pipelines. You will drive data governance, collaborate with BD teams, and mentor consultants while delivering evidence-based analytics solutions.

Leverage Databricks, Snowflake, and Fabric to design lakehouse architectures and modern data workflows, with travel up to 50%. Strong client interaction and leadership are essential.