Senior Lead, Knowledge & Context Architecture

Teradata; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture across the Americas, guiding clients through data, metadata and AI readiness. You will combine data modelling, data engineering and semantic techniques to deliver trusted context for AI applications.

You will mentor teams, run workshops, and translate business requirements into architecture decisions while collaborating with product and engineering to shape Teradata's Knowledge Platform.

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, including dimensional, normalised or domain-oriented modelling approaches.
• Strong practical SQL skills and confidence working directly with customer data.
• Experience with metadata management, data catalogues, lineage, data quality or governance.
• Experience designing modern data architectures spanning data warehouses, lakehouses, object storage or cloud data platforms.
• Understanding of data-product concepts and how reusable, governed data assets support both human and AI consumers.
• A practical understanding of modern AI architecture, which may include LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, knowledge graphs or AI agents.
• Experience with semantic modelling, ontologies or knowledge representation.

Responsibilities

• Lead Knowledge & Context Architecture activities across the Americas, working directly with strategic customers, prospects and Teradata account teams.
• Act as a hands-on senior architect, leading discovery, workshops, design sessions and technical engagements.
• Help customers strengthen the data foundations needed for AI, including data models, metadata, semantics, lineage, quality, governance and reusable data products.
• Design architectures that integrate structured and unstructured data, metadata, business meaning and operational knowledge for AI applications.
• Apply data architecture to turn business concepts into usable enterprise knowledge.
• Develop practical approaches for capturing and curating context, including semantic models and AI-native data products.
• Coach architects and technical practitioners across the Americas, helping build deeper skills in data, knowledge, context and AI architecture.

Skills

Data architecture

Knowledge graphs

SQL proficiency

Data governance

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Python

AWS

Azure

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture across the Americas, guiding clients through data, metadata and AI readiness. You will combine data modelling, data engineering and semantic techniques to deliver trusted context for AI applications.

You will mentor teams, run workshops, and translate business requirements into architecture decisions while collaborating with product and engineering to shape Teradata's Knowledge Platform.