Bobcat Company · 3 hours ago
Technical Data Architect Sr
Minneapolis, MN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$165K/yr - $202K/yr
10+ years expBobcat Company is a leading global manufacturer of construction, agriculture, landscaping and grounds maintenance equipment. The Senior Data Architect is responsible for designing and governing the organization’s enterprise data architecture to enable advanced analytics and AI-driven solutions, ensuring data is AI-ready and governed to the highest standards.
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Responsibilities
Governance Framework: Establish and enforce enterprise-wide governance policies, ensuring data lineage, cataloguing, and stewardship are embedded in the development lifecycle
Data Quality: Oversee the strategy for Bobcat’s data quality framework establishing trustworthiness for critical business entities
Security & Privacy: Collaborate with Risk Management to design architectures that adhere to regulations such as GDPR/CCPA, internal compliance standards, and role-based access controls (RBAC)
Enterprise Data Modelling: Own the conceptual and logical data models to support business analytics and AI initiatives
Information Architecture: Collaborate with Bobcat knowledge workers to build an information architectural roadmap to enable the secure ingestion, synthesis, tagging and dispensation of structured and unstructured data that can be utilized to solve complex business problems for both internal and external personas
Ontology: Define the vision, structure, and adoption plan for Bobcat’s ontology so AI systems can operate with consistent meaning, context, and reasoning
AI Center of Excellence (AI COE) Collaboration: Collaborate with Bobcat's AI COE to align Data Architectural Roadmaps with Targeted Business Outcomes. Ensure the architecture enables scalable environments for data analysis and development of Large Language Models
AI-Ready Infrastructure: Design the data foundation required for MLOps, ensuring seamless data provisioning for training, testing, and deploying machine learning models
GenAI & Semantic Layer: Architect the storage and retrieval strategies for Generative AI, including Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs, and embeddings to support RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Strategic Alignment: Translate complex technical concepts into business value proposition for C-level executives and non-technical stakeholders
Technical Leadership: Partner with Bobcat’s Enterprise and Solution Architects to drive alignment across Business, Data, Application, and Technical Architecture at the Enterprise level. Mentor data engineers and junior architects, conducting reviews to ensure alignment with architectural standards
Vendor Management: Evaluate third-party tools and vendors to build a build-vs-buy strategy that fits Bobcat’s ecosystem
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
10+ years of experience in data architecture, software development, and technical leadership
Proven expertise in physical data modeling, NoSQL/distributed databases, scalable ETL frameworks, and cloud-native architectures
Experience establishing data governance policies and designing secure, high-availability data systems
Hands-on experience with AI/ML data pipelines, automated feature engineering, and generative AI data infrastructure (vector databases, embeddings). Expectation for this role is to be hands-on 20-30% of their time
Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills with a track record of influencing cross-functional teams
Preferred
Experience with open-source analytical technologies (R, Python, TensorFlow) and BI tools (Power BI)
Experience with Snowflake and dbt preferred
Agile development experience
Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term strategic data architecture goals
Company
Bobcat Company
Bobcat Company is a manufacturer of farm and construction equipment. It is a sub-organization of Ingersoll Rand.
1001-5000 employees
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Chief Financial Officer
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