Sr. Director Data & AI Platforms
Honeywell · Atlanta, GA
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Jul 16, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior architecture leadership role focused on designing and scaling enterprise-wide AI and data platforms across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments. The position involves setting technical standards for areas such as lakehouse architecture, MLOps, LLM and agentic systems, and industrial edge AI, while guiding governance forums, mentoring architects, and aligning platform strategy with business priorities. Suits a seasoned architect with deep hands-on experience in production ML systems at enterprise scale.
Principal level · 10+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Principal.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3 people in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 1–6
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $111,336 (middle half $92,500–$147,851).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
SOC classification is genuinely ambiguous. The role is titled 'Senior Director' with explicit mentorship, governance forum leadership, and stakeholder influence responsibilities — pointing toward 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers). However, the JD strongly emphasizes hands-on architecture, proofs of concept, and deep technical design work (LLMs, RAG, MLOps, edge AI), which aligns more with a senior individual-contributor architect. 15-2051 was chosen as primary because the day-to-day work described is technical platform design, not people management; 11-3021 is the close runner-up.
Advertised seniority is 'Senior' (from 'Senior Director' in the title). The actual scope — org-wide enterprise AI platform strategy, architecture community leadership, executive stakeholder influence, and 10+ years required — supports Principal-level classification.
The degree requirement ('MS or PhD … or equivalent applied experience') is listed under 'WE VALUE' (a preferred/valued section), not under 'YOU MUST HAVE', so it is treated as preferred rather than a hard gate.
Cloud platform requirement ('at least one major hyperscaler, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP') is a hard gate on cloud AI/data services experience; AWS is listed as the primary name with Azure and GCP as named alternatives.
Kubernetes, KServe, Ray, and Terraform appear together under 'WE VALUE' as examples of multi-cloud abstraction tools — listed as preferred with Kubernetes as primary and the others as alternatives.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI/ML platform architecture.
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