The role focuses on transforming architectural direction into reliable data pipelines, models, and analytics-ready datasets that enable trusted reporting, dashboards, and future AI initiatives. The Manager ensures that enterprise data assets are accurate, auditable, and fit for decision-making across Corporate Services, HR, Business Development, Programs, and across NI globally. In this role you will :
· Design, implement, and maintain enterprise data models aligned with architectural standards and governance rules.Develop and manage data models, views, and transformations supporting the Unit’s needs. Maintain databases and NI Datawarehouse.
· Design data architectures that support AI-ready data access, including structured knowledge bases, contextual retrieval layers, and vector-enabled data stores for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic AI workflows.
· Collaborate with the Systems Administrator on environment configuration, security, and access requirements for data platforms (databases, Datawarehouse, tables…).
· Build and maintain data pipelines that feed AI/ML models and intelligent assistants, including contextual data preparation for RAG systems, embedding generation, and integration with AI tooling via protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).
· Deliver clean, trusted datasets optimized for Power BI and NI future enterprise reporting tools. Translate business reporting needs into scalable and reusable data structures. Enrich NI’s reporting maturity by implementing KPIs, aggregations, and metrics in data layers wherever possible.
· Enable AI-augmented analytics by preparing datasets for natural language querying, contextual AI assistants, and automated insight generation, ensuring data is structured, semantically tagged, and accessible to AI agents.
· Work closely with the Principal Enterprise Architect to operationalize enterprise architecture and data standards.
· Collaborate with IM, Risk and Assurance, and other governance stakeholders to support auditability, compliance, and traceability.