Senior Solutions Architect — Modern Data & AI Platform

Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

403B Retirement

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Parental Leave

EFAP

Pet Insurance

Onsite Fitness Facility

Job summary

Medical College of Wisconsin is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the design of a modern data platform and AI-enabled analytics capabilities. You will guide cloud, data engineering, and analytics teams, aligning vendor designs with enterprise standards, security, and regulatory needs.

You will mentor engineers, develop reusable patterns, and ensure knowledge transfer to enable MCW to operate the platform independently over time.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years in data engineering, software/data architecture, or closely related discipline.
• 3+ years in solutions, data, or enterprise architect capacity.
• Experience with healthcare, life sciences, or regulated data domains is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve end-to-end reference architecture for modernized data estate.
• Lead migration to lakehouse with ingestion pipelines and cost/performance optimization.
• Establish patterns and guardrails for agentic AI and ML lifecycle.

Skills

Architecture design

Cloud architecture

MLOps

Data governance

SQL

Python

Stakeholder communication

Vendor collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Engineering or related field

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Databricks/Delta Lake

Snowflake

Kubernetes

APIs & Data Integration

Job description

Medical College of Wisconsin is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the design of a modern data platform and AI-enabled analytics capabilities. You will guide cloud, data engineering, and analytics teams, aligning vendor designs with enterprise standards, security, and regulatory needs.

You will mentor engineers, develop reusable patterns, and ensure knowledge transfer to enable MCW to operate the platform independently over time.