Chief AI Transformation Officer

For more details, please connect with Soumya Nayak at [email protected] or call at (919) 892-9711.

End Client MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority )Job Title AI Architec tDuration 6 Months + Extendabl eLocation 2 Broadway - MTA Headquarters, 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Hybrid )Ceipal ID MTA_AI926_S NJob Code 5926-

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Scope of Projec**

t:The MTA is seeking an experienced Data & AI Architect to design, define, and deliver enterprise data and artificial-intelligence solutions across a large, multi-department organization. This is a hands-on architecture role that blends deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder engagement. The architect will partner directly with business and operational teams across the MTA to surface ambiguous, poorly defined problems, translate them into clear and actionable requirements, secure approval, and implement solutions using modern agentic development toolin

g.The ideal candidate is equally comfortable in a whiteboard session with a non-technical department head and in the details of a multi-cloud data and AI platform. They bring recent, primarily Azure-based experience and hands-on fluency with Copilot-style AI development tooling, along with broad exposure to multiple cloud providers, database technologies, and AI/ML framework

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Responsibiliti**

es:• Engage stakeholders across any MTA department to elicit, clarify, and shape nebulous or emerging data and AI use cases into well-scoped opportuniti

es.• Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements documents that both technical and non-technical audiences can understand and act

on.• Present and explain proposed solutions, trade-offs, and value to stakeholders and governance bodies, and drive requirements through to formal approv

al.• Architect end-to-end data and AI solutions spanning ingestion, storage, transformation, modeling, serving, and consumption laye

rs.• Design and implement solutions using agentic development tooling to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality, security, and maintainabili

ty.• Define reference architectures, patterns, and standards for data and AI across multi-cloud and multi-database environmen

ts.• Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, data governance, cost efficiency, and regulatory complian

ce.• Collaborate with engineering, data science, platform, and product teams to move approved solutions from design into producti

on.• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers and analysts, and champion good data and AI practices organization wi

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Required/Preferred Ski**

lls:• 8+ years of overall experience in data engineering, data architecture, software engineering, or a closely related field, with 6+ years in an architecture-focused r

ole.• Multi-cloud experience with hands-on design and delivery across at least two major cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, or

GCP.• Multi-database experience across relational, NoSQL, analytical/warehouse, and vector or graph database technolog

ies.• Practical experience across AI/ML and generative-AI frameworks, models, and platforms including LLMs, ML pipelines, RAG, and model orchestrat

ion.• Strong requirements-gathering and stakeholder-facing skills with the ability to extract clarity from ambiguity and write actionable specificati

ons.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and secure buy

-in.• Hands-on experience delivering solutions with agentic development tooling / AI-assisted development workfl

ows.• Experience taking solutions from concept through approval to production implementat

ion.• Recent Microsoft Azure experience including Azure Data services, Synapse/Fabric, Azure OpenAI, and Azure

ML.• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot tooling such as GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, or M365 Copilot prefer

red.• Experience in large, complex, public-sector, transit, or infrastructure organizations prefer

red.• Relevant cloud or data architecture certifications prefer

red.• Familiarity with enterprise data governance, MLOps, and responsible-AI practi

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