Principal AI & Analytics Architect

Job Summary

To design and manage data systems while ensuring data quality, the full-time Principal AI & Analytics Architect will provide technical leadership in data architecture, focusing on enterprise AI and analytics architecture, data governance, and platform leadership, based in Shakopee, Minnesota.

Key responsibilities

• Implement and maintain a Data Catalog and standardize metadata tagging for AI teams
• Define and own the enterprise AI and analytics reference architecture, ensuring scalability for global use cases
• Act as the executive-facing authority on data and analytics, presenting architecture and risks to senior leadership

Required qualifications

• 12-15+ years in data architecture, analytics leadership, or platform design
• Proven experience in designing and scaling enterprise analytics platforms and AI-ready data foundations
• Strong command of cloud data ecosystems, particularly AWS, and analytics architectures
• Experience operating in complex, regulated, or security-sensitive environments
• Deep understanding of governance, privacy, and security by design