Principal AI Data Architect

About Agiloft

Agiloft is a recognized leader in enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software. We're a small, but rapidly growing company that has been adding about 50% more staff yearly and are looking for someone who can help build and maintain our AI-driven data architecture.

About the Role

As the Principal AI Data Architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and governing Agiloft's next-generation data architecture, with a strong focus on AI-first consumption. You will be instrumental in enabling advanced AI capabilities across the organization, from GPT assistants and AI agents to predictive models and operational intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end data architecture for the Data Warehouse Foundation, designing for AI-first consumption across GPT assistants, AI agents, predictive models, and operational intelligence — in addition to BI and reporting.
• Lead data modeling across all 11 departments, designing canonical enterprise data models that serve cross-functional AI and analytics use cases without duplication or fragmentation.
• Design and implement the contextual intelligence layer — including RAG architecture, vector store strategy, knowledge base ingestion pipelines, and document and unstructured data processing — that powers Agiloft's enterprise knowledge system.
• Build and maintain the agentic data integration layer: real-time and near-real-time data access patterns, agent memory and state persistence design, orchestration data requirements, and agent output integration back into the warehouse.
• Own the AI/ML feature layer — feature engineering strategy and standards, training data pipeline design, feature store architecture, and model output integration — enabling predictive analytics across churn, pipeline health, and operational forecasting.
• Design and govern the operational data and GPT context layer, including structured context feed design for GPT assistants, data freshness and access SLAs for AI use cases, and cross-departmental data reuse standards.
• Lead the Data Warehouse Foundation build in partnership with the external consulting team — setting architecture standards, reviewing implementation against AI-first principles, and ensuring the five-wave build plan delivers a foundation that serves the full intelligence architecture.
• Design and manage data ingestion, ELT/ETL, and orchestration pipelines across all source systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and enforce AI data engineering standards across the organization — prompt-adjacent data design, agent data access patterns, reusable pipeline components, and quality assurance processes.
• Own data access policy design and least-privilege access controls in partnership with Security, ensuring data made available to AI systems is governed, auditable, and compliant.
• Define data quality standards and monitoring processes for AI-consumed data, where quality failures have direct impact on model and agent performance.
• Partner with the Principal Data and Integrations Architect on infrastructure design, ensuring data modeling and AI consumption requirements are incorporated into pipeline and architecture decisions from the start — not retrofitted after build.
• Partner with the VP FP&A and Manager of BI & Data to ensure the semantic and metrics layers are technically sound and serve both AI use cases and reporting requirements.
• Manage the AI Ops data architecture roadmap, translating business and AI use case requirements from all 11 departments into sequenced, prioritized technical work.
• Maintain documentation and knowledge transfer standards for all data architecture, pipelines, and integration patterns — ensuring AI Ops-built infrastructure is reusable, auditable, and not dependent on any single individual.
• Collaborate with the AI Agent Engineer and GPT & AI Systems Lead to ensure data infrastructure supports agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-step reasoning workflows.
• Define the roadmap for data science and AI data work in partnership with the VP of AI Operations. All roadmapping is managed within AI Operations.
• Evaluate and recommend data tooling, frameworks, and platform components in alignment with AI Ops' technology-agnostic, build-for-leverage approach.
• Other duties as assigned.