Role Summary
Define and lead the end‑to‑end architecture of the Target State Agentic AI Platform and Strategic agentic AI solution, ensuring scalable, secure, and interoperable data capabilities across ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers. Provide architectural direction and governance for platform and data engineering teams, enabling application or business teams to build Agentic AI solutions/platforms to automate data operations related to investment performance, investment research, and related daily operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the end-to-end target state architecture for the Agentic AI Platform, covering prompt engineering, memory, agent frameworks, knowledge management, and agentic AI patterns
- Establish architectural standards and guardrails for Iceberg based Lakehouse design, including table layout, partitioning, schema evolution, and lifecycle management
- Build agentic AI solutions to automate data operations related to investment performance, investment research, and related daily operations.
- Review platform and data engineering designs to ensure alignment with architectural principles, performance expectations, and enterprise standards
- Partner with Platform Engineering to align infrastructure, security, observability, and CI/CD capabilities with architectural intent
- Work with enterprise Architecture Governance and Security teams to ensure adherence to access control, compliance, and audit requirements
- Publish and maintain architectural artifacts, including reference diagrams, design guidelines, and architectural decision records
- Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities, guiding platform evolution over time
Qualifications
- Proven experience owning or leading enterprise agentic AI architecture
- Demonstrated ability to operate as an AI-augmented architect, leveraging GenAI tools to accelerate solution design, documentation, and decision-making while applying strong architectural judgment, governance, and quality standards.
- Strong understanding of distributed data processing, scalability, and performance considerations
- Experience architecting data platforms and agentic AI solutions in AWS, GCP and/or Azure environments
- Solid understanding of data governance, metadata management, and security architecture
- Ability to guide and influence multiple engineering teams through architectural leadership
- Experience working in large-scale or regulated enterprise environments preferred
- Financial or enterprise data platform background preferred but not required
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Skills Required
- Proven experience owning or leading enterprise agentic AI architecture
- Demonstrated ability to operate as an AI-augmented architect leveraging Generative AI tools
- Experience with Apache Iceberg and Lakehouse design (table layout, partitioning, schema evolution, lifecycle management)
- Strong understanding of distributed data processing, scalability, and performance considerations
- Experience architecting data platforms and agentic AI solutions in AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
- Solid understanding of data governance, metadata management, and security architecture
- Ability to guide and influence multiple engineering teams through architectural leadership
- Experience working in large-scale or regulated enterprise environments
- Financial or enterprise data platform background
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as a standout component, highlighted by a 401(k) match described as 100% on the first 6% of base salary. This is positioned as a meaningful offset to less competitive cash compensation for some roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off are portrayed as relatively robust, with references to multi-week vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and additional days tied to wellness or volunteering. This breadth is repeatedly treated as a tangible part of total rewards beyond base pay.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are presented as extensive, including the BeWell program, fitness discounts, onsite or supported health resources, and financial counseling. These offerings are depicted as strengthening the overall benefits proposition even when pay satisfaction is tepid.
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