Senior Enterprise Data & AI Architect (Hybrid)

Raymond James Financial, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James Financial, Inc. is seeking a highly technical Principal Data & AI Architect to lead architecture across enterprise data platforms and AI/ML capabilities. You will define reference architectures, drive modernization to cloud-native solutions, and collaborate with security, governance, risk, and business teams to deliver scalable, compliant analytics and AI services.

This hybrid role in St. Petersburg, FL emphasizes production-grade design, agentic data access, and reusable

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise data architecture and governance.
• Proven track record with cloud-based data platforms and AI architectures.
• Experience with AI/ML platform engineering and MLOps.
• Ability to define reference architectures and guardrails for enterprise use.
• Strong collaboration with security, risk, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal architect for enterprise data and AI platforms.
• Define target-state cloud architectures and reference designs.
• Lead modernization from on-premises to scalable cloud platforms.
• Evaluate cloud analytics, AI technologies, and governance tooling.
• Design scalable data ingestion, storage, and retrieval patterns.
• Mentor engineers on architecture patterns and production readiness.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

AI architecture

Cloud platform experience

LLM Ops

Data governance

Stakeholder influence

Tools

AWS Redshift

Snowflake

Databricks

Neo4j/Neptune

SageMaker/Bedrock

Retrieval-augmented generation

Job description

Raymond James Financial, Inc. is seeking a highly technical Principal Data & AI Architect to lead architecture across enterprise data platforms and AI/ML capabilities. You will define reference architectures, drive modernization to cloud-native solutions, and collaborate with security, governance, risk, and business teams to deliver scalable, compliant analytics and AI services.

This hybrid role in St. Petersburg, FL emphasizes production-grade design, agentic data access, and reusable