Data Architect

Job Description

Come join one of the largest News Organizations in the US and help design their future state AI enabled Data Architecture.

Day to day:

1. End-to-end data & AI architecture: Define and operationalize a clear enterprise approach for how data and AI work together from ingestion through transformation, curation, serving, activation, and AI enablement.

2. Taxonomy, ontology & semantic foundations: Drive clarity and progress on taxonomy, ontology, metadata, and semantic structure to support discoverability, analytics, personalization, governance, and AI use cases.

3. Data onboarding standards & SLAs: Establish a consistent data onboarding model with measurable SLAs for speed, quality, ownership, lineage, documentation, and operational readiness.

What this person will do:

• Drive stakeholder alignment and decision-making across architecture, governance, and operating model choices

• Stand up reusable patterns and practical frameworks the team can apply immediately

• Identify and unblock critical architectural and operational bottlenecks

• Translate ambiguity into action, with visible progress during the engagement

• Work side-by-side with the current team to embed changes that can be sustained after the engagement

Expected Outcomes by end of contract:

• A clear, adopted core data and AI architecture approach

• An actionable taxonomy, ontology, and semantic strategy

• A working data onboarding model with defined SLAs and quality gates across News Group data assets

• Reusable standards, governance direction, and operating patterns in active use

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Skills and Requirements

· 10+ years in data architecture, data platform engineering, information architecture, or AI systems architecture

· Deep enterprise data architecture expertise with strong hands-on understanding of Databricks and medallion design

· Strong experience in distributed data processing, data modeling, governance, observability, metadata strategy, and semantic modeling

· Production experience with AI / LLM-based systems, including RAG, vector databases, prompt orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, and governance controls. Understanding of fast evolving AI agent architectures.

· Deep understanding of how taxonomy, ontology, metadata, and semantic structures support scalable enterprise data and AI use cases

· Deep working knowledge of Databricks and AWS, with the ability to architect and execute within already-selected strategic platforms

· Strong understanding of how to improve technical team productivity through modern AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex