Job Overview Lead the Business Intelligence function by setting technical direction in data engineering, data warehousing, and analytics. Serve as...
Data Architect
Farm Credit Financial Partners, Inc.Job Overview
Design and implement enterprise data architecture solutions to ensure seamless data flow across systems. Focus on modern architectures, including AI/ML data pipelines, real-time streaming, and infrastructure for autonomous agent systems. Align data assets with business goals, security, and optimization for analytics and AI workloads.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, scalable data architectures on cloud platforms using data lake, warehouse, and Lakehouse patterns.
- Model datasets for financial reporting, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
- Implement batch and real-time streaming data pipelines.
- Build infrastructure supporting AI/ML model training, inference, and autonomous agent data access.
- Gain experience with vector databases and embedding storage for AI applications.
- Support data mesh and data product initiatives for self-service data consumption.
- Implement knowledge graph concepts and semantic layers for AI reasoning.
- Create data integration processes for enterprise systems.
- Work with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to translate needs into data models.
- Implement data governance, quality, cataloging, lineage tracking, and metadata management.
- Apply responsible AI practices including bias detection and explainability.
- Optimize architectures for performance, cost, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with IT security and data teams on best practices.
- Communicate project status and requirements with stakeholders.
- Stay updated on cloud data services, AI/ML requirements, and emerging technologies.
- Research infrastructure for Agentic Architecture and evaluate vector databases, knowledge graphs.
- Foster innovative team culture and contribute to data governance.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience with data modeling techniques and warehousing principles, including schema design.
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Azure Data Lake, Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, BigQuery.
- Proficiency in SQL and programming languages like Python, Scala, or Spark for data manipulation and transformation.
- Experience with real-time data streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, Event Hubs, Pub/Sub.
- Knowledge of data integration patterns.