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Be part of an exciting role evolution from data scientist and machine learning engineer to AI engineer.\nYour Impact\nData Architecture: Develop and implement data architecture to store, process, analyze, and visualize large, high-volume datasets.\nGovernance & Compliance: Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, data quality standards, and privacy compliance-including regional requirements such as GDPR and country-specific legislation such as workers councils.\nTechnical Guidance: Guide technical peers on database and data lake sources, as well as security requirements such as RBAC/ABAC, row- and column-level security, masking/tokenization, key management, PII classification\nInsights & BI: Translate complex data structures into actionable insights using Business Intelligence and analytics tools such as Tableau or Power BI including building organization-wide dashboards for tracking measurements, usage and KPI’s for email, SaaS applications, and productivity suites.\nCollaboration: Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to understand, articulate, and resolve business problems, alongside related security and privacy concerns.\nAI-Enabled Analytics: Design semantic models and certified datasets that make natural-language and AI-assisted BI reliable - Power BI Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Tableau Agent/Pulse or Snowflake Cortex - including the measure definitions, field descriptions, and synonyms these tools depend on to return trustworthy answers.\nMinimum Qualifications\nEducation & Experience: Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 4+ years of related experience, or Ph.D. with 1+ year of related experience.\nData Modeling: Proven capability in enterprise data modeling (dimensional, relational, and NoSQL) and the design of robust data warehouses and data lakes.\nTechnical Proficiency: Proficiency in core programming and querying languages essential for data orchestration and analytics, primarily Python, SQL, dbt, and Snowflake.\nCore Competencies: Excellent communication and strategic planning skills, combined with a self-motivated approach and a strong focus on execution.\nData Pipelines: Demonstrated ability to ensure data quality while creating and maintaining optimal data pipelines.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced Pipeline Engineering: Advanced expertise in designing, building, and optimizing scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and distributed data processing frameworks.\nReporting & Visualization: Experience designing and creating reporting and visualization solutions to communicate data insights and directly link data to business outcomes.\nHands-on experience enabling and tuning natural-language/AI features in a BI platform (e.g., Power BI Copilot, Tableau Agent, Snowflake Cortex Analyst), including the semantic-model preparation required for accurate results.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. 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