Senior ML Solutions Architect – Production AI & MLOps Leader

Empower LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower LLC in the United States seeks a Senior Machine Learning Solution Architect to shape how ML and analytics are designed, delivered, and scaled across the organization. You will own architectural patterns for data movement into production-grade ML and AI use cases powering business outcomes.

This role sits at the intersection of data, ML, and application architecture, defining how data is structured, moved, and activated to enable personalization, marketing, reporting, and real-time

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a closely related quantitative field.
• 8+ years of experience in data, platform, or software engineering roles with exposure to machine learning or advanced analytics.
• Experience designing and delivering production-grade machine learning or analytics solutions.
• Strong background in data architecture and data movement across distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of ML workflows including feature engineering, model training, experimentation, evaluation, and production deployment.
• Experience with modern data and ML platforms such as AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end ML solutions from data ingestion through production consumption across multiple use cases.
• Design and standardize data flows to support ML, analytics, personalization, and real-time decisioning.
• Define patterns for feature engineering, model training, experimentation, and evaluation at scale.
• Define MLOps patterns for deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of models.
• Build reusable capabilities such as feature pipelines, model serving frameworks, and data access patterns.
• Expose ML outputs through APIs, batch processes, and real-time services.
• Collaborate with data scientists/engineers to streamline experimentation and production decisions.

Skills

ML architecture

Data engineering

Distributed systems

MLOps

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science/Statistics/CS

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Empower LLC in the United States seeks a Senior Machine Learning Solution Architect to shape how ML and analytics are designed, delivered, and scaled across the organization. You will own architectural patterns for data movement into production-grade ML and AI use cases powering business outcomes.

This role sits at the intersection of data, ML, and application architecture, defining how data is structured, moved, and activated to enable personalization, marketing, reporting, and real-time