Hybrid Data & AI Architect
Crossfire Consulting Corp New York
We are seeking an experienced Data & AI Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale data and artificial intelligence solutions across multiple departments. This hands-on role combines advanced architecture expertise, stakeholder engagement, and modern AI-assisted development.
This position requires an in person interview.
Contract Length: 6 months with possible extensionLocation: New York, NY
Work Setup: Hybrid 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Work Week: 37.5 hours
Data & AI Architect Responsibilities
- Partner with business and operational stakeholders to identify, clarify, and scope complex or emerging data and AI use cases.
- Translate ambiguous business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements and secure stakeholder approval.
- Architect end-to-end data and AI solutions across ingestion, storage, transformation, modeling, serving, and consumption layers.
- Design solutions using agentic development and AI-assisted tooling, while maintaining security, governance, quality, and scalability.
- Establish architecture patterns and standards across multi-cloud and multi-database environments.
- Collaborate with engineering, data science, platform, and product teams to move solutions from concept through production.
Data & AI Architect Qualifications
Critical Requirements- 8+ years in data engineering, data architecture, software engineering, or a related field, including 6+ years in architecture-focused roles.
- Hands-on experience across at least two major cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong knowledge of relational, NoSQL, analytical/warehouse, vector, or graph databases.
- Practical AI/ML and GenAI experience, including LLMs, RAG, ML pipelines, and model orchestration.
- Proven stakeholder-facing requirements gathering and communication skills.
- Experience with agentic development tooling / AI-assisted development workflows.
- Recent Microsoft Azure experience, including Azure Data Services, Synapse/Fabric, Azure OpenAI, or Azure ML.
- Microsoft Copilot experience, including GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, or M365 Copilot.
- Experience with enterprise data governance, MLOps, responsible AI, or public-sector/transit/infrastructure environments.
- Relevant cloud or data architecture certifications.
This Data & AI Architect opportunity is ideal for a hands-on technology leader who can turn complex business challenges into secure, scalable, production-ready AI and data solutions.
We look forward to reviewing your application!
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