As Principal Data Architect within Forward Deployed Engineering, you are the senior-most data authority on our most complex customer engagements. You lead the data and knowledge foundations that power customer AI solutions on the Business AI Cloud, working directly with enterprise architects, data leaders, and FDE engineers.
What distinguishes this role is how the work gets done. Rather than hand-building every pipeline, you lead data discovery and transformation journeys through BAIC’s Data Agents — Data Discovery, Data Engineering, Data Analyst, and Data Orchestrator — compressing work that traditionally consumes months of an enterprise data program into a fraction of the time. Your judgment directs the agents: deciding what to profile, how to model, where to intervene, and when the output is trustworthy enough to build on.
On top of that accelerated foundation, you build what makes the platform valuable: knowledge semantic clusters, ontologies, and the semantic structures that ground BAIC agents in each customer’s proprietary business reality. Knowledge is the heart of this role. We are not a data migration practice — we meet customers where their data already lives and make it usable, governed, and intelligible to AI.
The role is hands-on and customer-facing across multiple concurrent deployments, but the scope is broader than any single engagement: you set the standards the wider FDE organization delivers against, act as the escalation point for the hardest data problems, mentor other architects and engineers, and turn field learnings into reusable patterns.