AI Data Architect

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The Role
Design, build, govern, and own an enterprise AI data platform that ingests, transforms, stores, and serves data for AI consumers. Define multi-domain data models, data contracts, pipelines, vector and retrieval infrastructure, observability for agentic behavior, and evaluation frameworks. Establish architecture standards, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code to enable production AI/ML and LLM applications.
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3Pillar is an AI transformation partner on a mission to help enterprises build the AI-native products and intelligent agents that will define the next era of business. With teams across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, we work with the most ambitious companies in financial services, healthcare, media, and technology — helping them move faster, modernize boldly, and compete on their own terms. Our HelixAI platform and Helix Pods delivery model put our engineers at the center of real agentic transformation — doing work that is open, portable, and built to last. We are building the future of enterprise AI.
 
AI Data Architect
 
We are looking for an AI Data Architect to design, build, govern, and evolve the single source of truth that powers every AI initiative in our organization.
This platform will serve as the foundational nervous system for conversational AI assistants, dashboard intelligence, autonomous AI agents, RAG-powered applications, predictive ML models, and any AI product we build today or in the future. The resource will architect the system, drive implementation, own the data contracts that agents and AI applications depend on, enforce security and access governance for both human and agent consumers, and continuously monitor and improve the accuracy and reliability of AI outputs that flow from this platform. 

Requirements:

    Architect and own the enterprise AI data platform — the unified, governed layer that ingests, transforms, stores, and serves all data consumed by AI systems across the organisation.
    Design multi-domain data models (lakehouse, data mesh, event-driven) that are structured from day one to serve AI workloads: clean lineage, versioned schemas, well-documented contracts, and low-latency serving APIs.
    Strong exposure to different Data architectures, data lake & data warehouse
    Define tools & technologies to develop automated data pipelines, write ETL processes, develop dashboard & report and create insights

Responsibilities

    Technical Skills
    Primary Skills:
     Python, SQL, Snowflake/Databricks, AWS (S3, Glue, EKS, Bedrock, Kinesis, Redshift), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LLM APIs (OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Claude, HuggingFace), (Pinecone, FAISS, ChromaDB, OpenSearch), knowledge graphs (Neo4j).
     
    Secondary Skills: MLflow, FastAPI, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling (CloudWatch, Grafana, or equivalent), data lineage and metadata management platforms.
     
    • 15+ years of hands-on data engineering and architecture experience, alongside building production AI/ML and LLM-era data infrastructure.
    • Strong Experience with either Databricks or Snowflake; experience with both is desirable.
    • Strong data architecture patterns & principles, ability to design secure & scalable data lakes, data warehouse, data hubs, and other event-driven architectures
    • Expertise in designing and writing ETL processes in Python / Java / Scala
    • Own the full data stack: real-time streaming (Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming), batch processing (Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake), cloud storage and compute (AWS, Azure), and data quality /metadata management.
    • Drive modernisation of legacy pipelines (on-prem ETL, batch DWH) to cloud-native, AI-ready architectures with measurable improvements in cost, latency, and delivery velocity.
    • Proven experience designing enterprise-scale AI data platforms that serve multiple AI consumers —not just one application or pipeline.
    • Hands-on experience with vector stores, semantic models, knowledge graphs, and retrieval infrastructure in production environments.
    • Working knowledge of LLMOps: model serving pipelines, MLflow, CI/CD for AI, automated evaluation, and production monitoring.
       
       

AI Experience

    RAG, Vector & Retrieval Infrastructure
    Design the retrieval infrastructure that powers RAG-based AI applications: embedding pipelines, vector stores (Pinecone, FAISS, ChromaDB, OpenSearch), chunking strategies, and hybrid retrieval layers combining semantic search with structured queries.
     
    Agentic Behaviour Observability & Output Accuracy
    Own the observability stack for AI agent behaviour: instrument agents to capture inputs, retrieved context, tool calls, reasoning traces, and outputs — creating a complete audit trail of every agentic action driven by platform data.
    Design and operate evaluation frameworks that continuously measure AI output quality: factual accuracy, context faithfulness, retrieval relevance, hallucination rates, and task completion success— across all AI consumers of the platform.
     
    Architecture Standards & Engineering Enablement
    Define and maintain the reference architecture for the AI data platform — documenting design patterns, data contracts, integration standards, and decision records (ADRs) that all engineering teams follow.
    Establish data engineering standards: pipeline testing frameworks, code review practices, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), reusable component libraries, and observability instrumentation.

Benefits

  • Medical Insurance benefits as per company policy. 

  • Dental insurance as per company policy.

  • Vision insurance as per company policy.

  • Employer paid Disability, Life, and AD&D insurance

  • Unlimited PTO 

  • Paid parental leave 

  • 401K

  • Flexible work policy

  • 12 Paid Holidays

Skills Required

  • 15+ years of hands-on data engineering and architecture experience, including production AI/ML and LLM-era data infrastructure
  • Strong experience with Databricks or Snowflake
  • Strong data architecture patterns and principles for data lakes, warehouses, data hubs, and event-driven architectures
  • Expertise designing and writing ETL processes in Python, Java, or Scala
  • Ownership of full data stack: real-time streaming (Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming) and batch processing (Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake)
  • Cloud storage and compute experience (AWS, Azure) including S3, Glue, EKS, Kinesis, Redshift, and familiarity with Bedrock
  • Hands-on experience with vector stores and retrieval infrastructure (Pinecone, FAISS, ChromaDB, OpenSearch) and knowledge graphs (Neo4j)
  • Experience with containerization, orchestration, and IaC: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions
  • Working knowledge of LLMOps: model serving pipelines, MLflow, CI/CD for AI, automated evaluation, and production monitoring
  • Experience designing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, embedding pipelines, chunking strategies, and hybrid retrieval
  • Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and LLM APIs (OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Claude, HuggingFace)
  • Experience with observability tooling and monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana or equivalent) and data lineage/metadata management platforms
  • Experience modernizing legacy ETL and batch DWH to cloud-native, AI-ready architectures with measurable cost, latency, and delivery improvements
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The Company
HQ: Fairfax, VA
1,784 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

3Pillar Global builds breakthrough software products that power digital businesses. 3Pillar is an innovative product development partner whose solutions drive rapid revenue, market share, and customer growth for industry leaders in Software and SaaS, Media and Publishing, Information Services, and Retail. Leveraging a lean and agile approach, 3Pillar delivers value-generating, digital solutions with specialized product strategy and management, user experience design, as well as software and data engineering expertise across mobile, cloud, and disruptive technologies.

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