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You’re what binds us together.\nTeam Summary:\nThe Enterprise Data & AI team partners across Data Engineering, Data Science & AI, Product, Digital, Marketing, Sales, Analytics, and other technology teams to build trusted, scalable data and AI capabilities. The team establishes reusable architecture patterns and technical guardrails that strengthen security, consistency, engineering quality, and responsible AI adoption across the organization.\nRole Summary:\nStaples is seeking a senior-level Data & AI Architect to lead the architecture of modern data and AI capabilities supporting marketing, customer engagement, digital experiences, sales, and enterprise decision-making. The Sr Data & AI Architect II will define scalable architecture across cloud data platforms, data products, semantic models, real-time data, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent applications. This role will enable capabilities such as conversational analytics, Databricks Genie, AI agents grounded in trusted enterprise data, intelligent decisioning, recommendations, and personalization. The ideal candidate combines deep enterprise data architecture expertise with practical experience applying data and AI within customer-facing domains.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nOwn the current-state, transition-state, and target-state data and AI architecture supporting marketing, customer engagement, digital, sales, and analytics use cases.\nArchitect modern data platforms and reusable data products using technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, cloud services, APIs, event streaming, and semantic models.\nEstablish governed data and context architectures that allow analytics, AI models, and AI agents to securely access trusted enterprise data.\nEnable intelligent experiences such as conversational analytics, Databricks Genie, AI agents, recommendations, propensity models, and next-best-action capabilities.\nDesign reusable customer, account, marketing, product, sales, and engagement data products that support analytics, AI, personalization, activation, and measurement.\nDefine scalable architecture patterns across batch, real-time, streaming, API, structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.\nEstablish standards for semantic models, data contracts, metadata, lineage, observability, data quality, privacy, security, and access controls.\nPartner with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to operationalize machine learning and generative AI through governed data products, model outputs, APIs, and reusable services.\nTranslate marketing and customer opportunities into architecture decisions, proofs of concept, implementation roadmaps, and technology recommendations.\nLead architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and design sessions while documenting key decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.\nProvide technical direction across engineering teams and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, privacy, data governance, and responsible AI standards.\nMentor architects and engineers and promote common data, AI, integration, and engineering patterns across the organization.\nWhat you bring to the table:\nStrong enterprise architecture, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.\nAbility to connect business opportunities with practical data and AI solutions.\nStrong technical leadership and mentoring skills.\nStrategic thinking with the ability to translate architecture into executable roadmaps.\nExcellent communication skills and the ability to partner with business, engineering, data, and executive stakeholders.\nAbility to operate effectively in a complex, rapidly evolving technology environment.\nWhat’s needed- Basic Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\n10+ years of experience designing enterprise data platforms, data products, integration architectures, analytical systems, or high-volume data solutions.\nDeep experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent, including lakehouse and data warehouse architectures.\nExperience designing data architectures supporting analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent applications.\nDemonstrated experience in marketing, customer, digital commerce, sales, or similar customer-facing data domains.\nStrong experience designing batch, streaming, API, and event-driven data architectures.\nStrong knowledge of relational, dimensional, event, document, and semantic data-modeling approaches.\nExperience building reusable data products, curated data layers, and semantic models for analytical and operational consumption.\nFamiliarity with conversational analytics, AI agents, RAG, vector search, and enterprise AI grounding.\nExperience operationalizing machine learning or AI capabilities such as recommendations, propensity, lead scoring, next-best action, or generative AI use cases.\nExperience with enterprise data governance, metadata, lineage, observability, data quality, privacy, security, and access controls.\nFluency in SQL and working knowledge of Python, Java, Scala, or another language used for modern data and AI engineering.\nDemonstrated ability to lead architecture across multiple teams and communicate complex recommendations to senior business and technology leaders.\nWhat’s needed- Preferred Qualifications:\nMaster's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience with Databricks Genie, Mosaic AI, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, or comparable data and AI technologies.\nExperience with AI-agent architecture, RAG, enterprise context and grounding, vector databases, agent evaluation, and responsible AI.\nExperience designing semantic models and governed business metrics for self-service and conversational analytics.\nFamiliarity with Salesforce, Marketo, Optimove, Adobe, Hightouch, or comparable customer engagement and activation technologies.\nExperience 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