Enterprise Architect Data & AI

Kforce has a client that is seeking an Enterprise Architect, Data & AI in Plano, TX.

The Opportunity: The Enterprise Architect will bring strong cross-domain expertise, strategic thinking, and executive presence. This is not just a governance-focused role-you will serve as a strategic leader, facilitator, and trusted advisor who can influence senior stakeholders while remaining closely involved in execution.

In this individual contributor role, you will operate in a fast-paced, mid-sized, and highly collaborative environment. You will partner across business and technology teams to drive enterprise-wide architecture initiatives that enable scalable data and AI modernization.

Responsibilities:

• Drive enterprise architecture strategy across multiple business domains, ensuring alignment with overall organizational objectives
• Lead discussions with senior stakeholders, simplifying complex technical concepts and guiding decision-making
• Establish and standardize metadata practices across domains, enabling improved data discoverability, lineage, and governance
• Design and evolve enterprise semantic data models, including logical and conceptual models, ontologies, and domain definitions
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and AI teams to ensure data supports reporting, analytics, and AI-driven use cases
• Contribute to the development and improvement of next-generation AI capabilities and models
• Apply knowledge of machine learning operations (MLOps) to support deployment, management, and monitoring of AI solutions in production
• Actively participate in solution design and delivery with hands-on involvement, beyond governance activities
• Review and validate AI-generated outputs (e.g., code) for quality, accuracy, and efficiency
• Stay current with industry trends in data, AI, and enterprise architecture to inform strategic direction