Senior Knowledge & Context Architect – Hybrid & AI

Teradata; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture activities across the Americas. You will work with strategic customers and Teradata teams to establish practical, trusted foundations for AI and analytics.

The role blends data modelling, metadata, semantics and knowledge representation with hands-on architecture, workshops and customer engagements to help ensure Teradata’s Autonomous Knowledge Platform delivers real value.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in data architecture, data modelling, data engineering or enterprise data management across complex environments.
• Practical knowledge of relational data architecture with modelling approaches.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to work directly with customer data.
• Experience with metadata management, data catalogues, lineage, data quality or governance.
• Experience designing architectures spanning data warehouses, lakehouses, cloud platforms.
• Understanding of data-product concepts and reusable data assets for human and AI use.
• Understanding modern AI architecture including LLMs, retrieval, vector search, knowledge graphs or AI agents.
• Experience with semantic modelling, ontologies or knowledge representation.

Responsibilities

• Lead Knowledge & Context Architecture activities across the Americas with strategic customers.
• Hands-on senior architect leading discovery, workshops and design sessions.
• Strengthen data foundations: models, metadata, semantics, lineage, quality, governance.
• Design architectures uniting structured and unstructured data for trusted AI context.
• Translate business requirements into clear architecture and technology decisions.
• Develop semantic models, ontologies and AI-native data products.
• Mentor architects and share insights with Product Management and Engineering.
• Turn patterns into reusable architecture assets and guidance for global use.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data engineering

SQL

Metadata management

Governance

AI architectures

Knowledge graphs

Ontology modelling

Business communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Data Science

Tools

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Databricks

Graph technologies

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture activities across the Americas. You will work with strategic customers and Teradata teams to establish practical, trusted foundations for AI and analytics.

The role blends data modelling, metadata, semantics and knowledge representation with hands-on architecture, workshops and customer engagements to help ensure Teradata’s Autonomous Knowledge Platform delivers real value.