Data Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +42 more states.

📋 Description

• Direct the strategy and architecture for enterprise data, ontology, and AI platforms.

• Create scalable standards and solutions across Palantir, Snowflake, and AWS.

• Oversee the enterprise Ontology strategy and architecture on Palantir Foundry/AIP.

• Establish object models, semantic standards, domain ownership, and Ontology governance.

• Define reference architectures and usage patterns for Foundry and AIP functionalities.

• Facilitate Ontology integration with policy, billing, claims, enterprise data platforms, and downstream applications.

• Design architectures for AI, GenAI, and Agentic workflows utilizing LLM/RAG patterns, agent boundaries, human-in-the-loop controls, and Responsible AI requirements.

• Outline the target state for data architecture, including roadmap, conceptual and logical data models, domain boundaries, data products, and data mesh/lakehouse patterns.

• Set standards for data integration, APIs, and event-driven patterns across Snowflake, Kafka/MSK, and Palantir.

• Implement data governance, lineage, metadata, quality, privacy, and security requirements.

• Analyze the data and analytics platform portfolio and establish interoperability across Snowflake, Palantir, and AWS.

• Provide architectural guidance for AWS data and AI capabilities, including S3, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, MSK, Bedrock, and SageMaker.

• Define integration standards among the data platform, ontology layer, and enterprise applications.

• Conduct architecture reviews for data and AI projects and approve solution designs.

• Develop business cases, capability maps, and architecture narratives for executive-level stakeholders.

• Support infrastructure and engineering teams while maintaining reusable patterns, principles, and architecture decision records.

• Collaborate with business and product leadership to formulate a prioritized architecture roadmap.

• Travel as necessary for divisional, team, and other in-person meetings.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, or related roles.

• 5+ years in an enterprise or domain architect capacity.

• 4+ years designing enterprise Data, Cloud, or AI architectures at scale.

• 3+ years of experience with Palantir Foundry and AIP, including Ontology design and governance.

• Extensive expertise in enterprise data modeling, ontology/knowledge graph concepts, data mesh, data products, and domain-driven design.

• Strong proficiency with AWS, cloud-native patterns, event-driven and API-based integration, high availability, observability, and infrastructure as code.

• Architecture-level experience with Snowflake, Kafka/MSK, Spark, Bedrock, and SageMaker.

• Adequate Python and SQL fluency to assess designs and review implementations.

• Proven experience architecting AI/ML, GenAI, RAG, and Agentic AI solutions, including governance and Responsible AI controls.

• Familiarity with data governance frameworks, regulatory and privacy requirements, and security architecture.

• Knowledge of TOGAF, ArchiMate, or similar enterprise architecture frameworks and tools.

• Ability to influence senior technology and business leaders and clearly communicate architecture decisions to executive audiences.

• Experience leading architecture governance forums and ensuring alignment across domains and delivery teams.

• Strong systems thinking skills and the ability to balance strategic direction with practical delivery constraints.

• Capacity to mentor solution architects and establish architecture standards and practices.

• Strong collaborative skills across Architecture, Engineering, Product, Security, Data Governance, Operations, and business teams.

• Experience with Palantir platform adoption across multiple business domains is strongly preferred.

• P&C insurance experience, such as Guidewire or comparable core platforms, is strongly preferred.

• Must be authorized to work indefinitely in the United States.

• CSAA does not provide visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for an annual bonus; potential for an annual discretionary bonus through the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) of up to 12% of eligible pay.

• 401(k) plan with a company match.

• Opportunities for career growth and development.

• Leadership and mentorship support.

• Remote-first flexible workplace / Home-Flex work primarily from home.

• Flexibility to work from various locations, including CSAA offices.

• An inclusive and welcoming workplace environment.

• Employee resource groups, mentoring, volunteering, and cross-functional project opportunities.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities or other limitations.