Human Agency · 10 hours ago
Data Architect - Chicago, IL
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
7+ years expHuman Agency is a rapidly scaling company dedicated to delivering exceptional talent across various disciplines. They are seeking a Data Architect to design modern, AI-ready data architectures across multiple client engagements, ensuring data reliability and usability for business intelligence and machine learning applications.
AdvertisingDigital MarketingWeb Design
Responsibilities
Design and implement end-to-end data architectures in Snowflake — from raw ingestion through staging, fact/dimension modeling, and semantic layer design
Define data models that balance flexibility for analysts with performance and scalability for production
Partner with engineering teams to integrate data from source applications and operational systems
Establish versioned modeling standards and documentation to ensure consistency across domains
Build or refine semantic layers that unify metric definitions across BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Looker
Collaborate with business owners to define KPIs, approve new metrics, and monitor adoption
Implement versioned datasets and definitions to support reliable analytics and reporting
Architect feature pipelines and data contracts that support point-in-time correctness for machine learning models
Collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers to implement reusable feature stores for both training (offline) and deployment (online) use
Monitor data quality and prevent data leakage that could affect model performance
Support event-driven architectures that bridge predictive models with operational systems
Partner with AI teams to integrate structured and unstructured data into generative and agentic workflows (e.g., RAG, copilots, automated evaluation agents)
Design APIs or event structures that serve predictions and triggers in near real time
Measure adoption and value of AI-driven workflows through data instrumentation
Qualification
Required
7+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering with ownership of production pipelines and BI at scale
Demonstrated success owning and stabilizing production data platforms and critical pipelines
Strong grasp of modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), orchestration (Airflow), and transformation frameworks (dbt or equivalent)
Competence with data integration (ELT/ETL), APIs, cloud storage, and SQL performance tuning
Practical data reliability experience: observability, lineage, testing, and change management
Operates effectively in ambiguous, partially documented environments; creates order quickly through documentation and standards
Prior ownership of core operations and reliability for business-critical pipelines with defined SLOs and incident response
Demonstrated client-facing experience (consulting/agency or internal platform teams with cross-functional stakeholders) and outstanding written/verbal communication (executive briefings, workshops, decision memos)
Preferred
Deep interest in Generative AI and Machine Learning
Basic scripting ability in Python
Practical Generative AI experience: shipped at least one end-to-end workflow (e.g., RAG) including ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, generation, and evaluation
Working knowledge of LLM behavior (tokens, context windows, temperature/top-p, few-shot/tool use) and how to tune for quality/cost/latency
Comfort with vector search (e.g., pgvector or a hosted vector store) and hybrid retrieval patterns
Evaluation & safety basics: offline evaluation harnesses, lightweight online A/B tests, and guardrails for PII and prompt-injection
MLOps for LLMs: experiment tracking, versioning of prompts/configs, CI/CD for data & retrieval graphs, and production monitoring (latency, cost, drift)
Python scripting for data/LLM utilities and service integration (APIs, batching, retries)
Familiarity with BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) and semantic layer design
Exposure to streaming, reverse ETL, and basic MDM/reference data management
Security & governance awareness (role‑based access, least privilege, data retention)
Benefits
Performance-based bonuses
Company
Human Agency
At Human Agency, they are giving the power of digital advertising to the people.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
unknown2018-04-10Pre Seed
Leadership Team
Brendan Lind
Founder and Managing Partner
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