Lead AI Architect - Data Platform at Jobgether
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Jul 19, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical leadership role centered on designing and building a greenfield, AWS-based data and AI platform from the ground up. The architect will own the end-to-end data ecosystem — covering lakehouse architecture, AI/ML foundations including RAG pipelines, governance, and infrastructure automation — while also mentoring engineers and partnering with business stakeholders across finance, operations, and business development. Suits a hands-on architect with deep AWS and enterprise data platform experience.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“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 75 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 15–140
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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (8)
The compensation is quoted in CAD ($180,000–$240,000), indicating the hiring company is likely Canadian even though the role is listed as 'based in United States' and appears fully remote. The US-based flag is set to true based on the stated US location.
The title 'Lead AI Architect' was mapped to the level advertised in the title 'Principal' as 'Lead Architect' implies org-wide technical authority; however, the actual requirements (10+ years, player-coach, single platform) are consistent with a Senior-level scope, so seniority is set to Senior.
SOC code 15-1243 (Database Architects) was chosen as the primary occupation given the dominant focus on designing and building a data lake/lakehouse platform, data modeling, governance, and ingestion architecture. 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is the runner-up given the significant AI/ML platform and RAG responsibilities.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as required, but the JD also states 'a master's degree is a plus' and does not explicitly reject candidates without a degree (the language is 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field'), which is treated as a soft requirement rather than a hard gate — the degree requirement is set to None.
EKS and ECS are listed as interchangeable alternatives ('EKS or ECS') in the JD; they are captured as a single skill with ECS as the alternative.
Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi are listed as interchangeable open table format options; captured as one skill with Delta Lake and Apache Hudi as alternatives.
Terraform and AWS CDK are listed as interchangeable IaC options; captured as one skill with AWS CDK as the alternative.
Snowflake and Databricks appear only under the 'plus' / preferred section of the JD.
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