Principal AI & Data Architect

Were hiring at Pitney Bowes where top talent builds meaningful careers and lasting impact. We Move fast Deliver excellence and Win togetherthats The Pitney Bowes way. Here how we work matters just as much as what we achieve.

Were looking for people who:

• Act with urgency accountability and purpose

• Deliver high quality work with consistency and pride

• Collaborate effectively and elevate those around them

• Focus on outcomes that drive impact and growth

Job Description:

A senior technical leader who sets the direction for the organizations AI and data architecture. You build the scalable secure and governed foundation that supports analytics machine learning and generative AI. You serve as the architecture authority for AI and data platforms and ensure alignment across business priorities technology strategy and delivery teams.

• Lead enterprise AI and data strategy and own the architecture roadmap.

• Align AI and data initiatives with business goals and measurable value.

• Establish standards for scalable and reusable AI and data capabilities.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to technology and business leaders on AI strategy.

• Design modern data architecture including lakehouse mesh and hybrid models.

• Define enterprise data models canonical schemas metadata strategy lineage and integration patterns.

• Lead the development of a centralized and scalable enterprise data platform.

• Build AI and ML platform capabilities including MLOps and LLMOps.

• Enable consistent model lifecycle management from data ingestion through deployment and monitoring.

• Standardize tooling frameworks and infrastructure for AI delivery.

• Drive adoption of productiongrade AI patterns and reduce experimental silos.

• Define and enforce data governance including ownership stewardship quality MDM and lifecycle management.

• Resolve fragmentation and establish a single trusted data foundation.

• Embed responsible AI practices including transparency fairness and explainability.

• Partner with security and risk teams to protect sensitive data and models and mitigate AIrelated risks.

• Establish auditability and controls for AI systems.

• Lead architecture governance through reference architectures patterns and reusable components.

• Conduct architecture reviews for major data platforms and AIenabled applications.

• Partner with engineering product security and operations teams to support a federated adoption model.

• Build and mentor a highperforming team of architects and engineers.

• Drive collaboration through councils governance forums and working groups.

• Enterprise experience with 15 or more years in enterprise architecture data architecture or AI and ML platforms.

• Proven success building enterprisescale data and AI platforms.

• Experience driving AI adoption from concept to production at scale.

• Strong background in AWS Azure GCP and distributed systems.

• Technical depth across lakehouse data mesh ETL and ELT streaming pipelines model lifecycle management MLOps generative AI LLM integration metadata lineage and cloudnative architectures.

• Understanding of security and compliance requirements for data and AI systems.

• Ability to operate at both strategic and handson technical levels.

• Experience establishing enterprise standards and governance.

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and crossfunctional teams.

• Track record of building hightalent technical teams.

• Enterprise AI and data platform adopted across business units.

• Clear ownership and governance in place with reduced data fragmentation.

• Standardized AI delivery lifecycle with measurable improvements in speed and quality.

• Increased business impact from AI including revenue growth cost efficiency and improved decision quality.

• Strong architecture governance model that drives consistency and reuse.

Business Impact

• AIdriven revenue contribution and cost optimization.

• Adoption of AI and data capabilities across business units.

Platform and Delivery

• Time required to deploy AI models.

• Percentage of workloads using the standardized platform.

Data Quality and Governance

• Percentage of critical data assets with defined ownership.

• Improvements in data quality scores.

AI Effectiveness

• Model accuracy drift reduction and business outcome metrics.

• Return on investment for AI projects.

Risk and Compliance

• Percentage of AI systems under governance.

• Reduction in data and AIrelated risk incidents.

Location:

This is a hybrid role with 4 days in the Shelton CT office required. (No relocation assistance offered.)

Must be legally authorized to work in the US. Employer will not sponsor position for employment visa status now or in the future (ex. H-1B).

We will:

Provide the opportunity to grow and develop your career
Offer an inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives and ideas
Deliver challenging and unique opportunities to contribute to the success of a transforming organization
Offer comprehensive benefits globally (PB Benefits and Wellbeing Programs)

Pitney Bowes is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race color sex religion national origin age disability (mental or physical) veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal state or local laws.

All qualified applicants including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.

All interested individuals must apply online. Individuals with disabilities who cannot apply via our online application should refer to the alternate application options via our Individuals with Disabilities link.