Senior Manager, AI Knowledge & Context Architecture

Teradata; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture activities across the Americas, collaborating with strategic customers and account teams to establish practical AI-aware foundations. You will be a hands-on leader, guiding discovery, workshops and design sessions while strengthening data models, metadata, semantics and data products.

You will help drive architectures that combine structured and unstructured data with ontologies and knowledge graphs,

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in data architecture, modelling or engineering across complex environments.
• Practical knowledge of relational data architecture and modelling approaches.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to work directly with customer data.
• Experience with metadata management, lineage, data quality or governance.
• Experience designing data architectures across warehouses, lakehouses and cloud platforms.
• Understanding of data-product concepts and reusable data assets.
• Practical understanding of modern AI architecture including LLMs, RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs.
• Experience with semantic modelling, ontologies and knowledge representation.
• Ability to translate business requirements into architecture decisions.
• Ability to explain complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring or leading technical professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead Knowledge & Context Architecture activities across the Americas with strategic customers.
• Act as a hands‑on senior architect, leading discovery, workshops, and design sessions.
• Help customers strengthen data foundations—models, metadata, lineage, governance.
• Design architectures that fuse structured/unstructured data and contextual AI.
• Turn business concepts into architecture and technology decisions.
• Develop approaches for capturing and curating context, including semantic models and ontologies.
• Lead workshops, deep dives and proofs of concept with Americas customers.
• Turn customer patterns into reusable architecture assets and guidance for global use.
• Identify opportunities to create customer value with the Americas field.
• Mentor architects and practitioners across the Americas.
• Provide field feedback to Product Management and Engineering to shape direction.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data engineering

Metadata management

Semantics & ontologies

Knowledge representation

AI architecture basics

SQL proficiency

Business requirements to architecture

Mentoring/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Snowflake

Databricks

Python

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager, Knowledge & Context Architecture to lead architecture activities across the Americas, collaborating with strategic customers and account teams to establish practical AI-aware foundations. You will be a hands-on leader, guiding discovery, workshops and design sessions while strengthening data models, metadata, semantics and data products.

You will help drive architectures that combine structured and unstructured data with ontologies and knowledge graphs,