AI & Data Solution Architect

Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

Carrier is seeking a highly skilled and forward‑thinking AI & Data Solution Architect to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise‑scale Data, Analytics, and AI solutions across the organization. This role will play a critical part in defining enterprise data and AI architecture standards, shaping cloud‑first platforms, and enabling scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient adoption of analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across GCP, AWS, and Snowflake, strong experience with modern data platforms and lakehouse architectures, and proven leadership in AI/ML, Generative AI, and MLOps/LLMOps initiatives in production environments.

• Define and evolve Carrier’s AI & Data architecture strategy and roadmap, aligned with business priorities and IT strategy.
• Serve as a thought leader for modern data, analytics, and AI architectures, including Generative AI and Agentic AI.
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Partner with business and digital leaders to identify and prioritize high‑impact AI and analytics use cases.
• Provide architectural guidance on ethical, responsible, and compliant AI adoption.

• Lead end‑to‑end architecture design for complex data, analytics, and AI initiatives, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.

• Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Dataproc, Looker)
• AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, SageMaker, Lambda)
• Snowflake (data warehouse, data sharing, performance optimization)

• Data Lake, Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric
• Open table/file formats such as Parquet, Iceberg, Delta Lake
• Medallion architectures (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
• Define data ingestion and integration patterns across structured and semi‑structured sources (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, JDE, Ariba, IoT, APIs, NoSQL).
• Define and enforce data quality, metadata, lineage, and access control standards.

• Design and implement AI/ML and GenAI solution architectures from experimentation through production.
• Architect solutions for core ML use cases such as demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, supply chain optimization, and customer analytics.

• LLM integration with tools, APIs, and knowledge bases (RAG patterns)
• Autonomous and semi‑autonomous agent workflows
• Fine‑tuning, prompt engineering, and optimization strategies
• Establish MLOps and LLMOps frameworks for model training, deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
• Define approaches for model observability, explainability (XAI), bias detection, and risk mitigation.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to solution architects, data engineers, data scientists, and AI engineers.
• Collaborate closely with platform, DevOps, and cloud engineering teams to enable automation‑driven deployments.
• Review solution designs, conduct architecture assessments, and provide impact analysis and recommendations.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and executive audiences.

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or technical discipline.
• 8+ years hands‑on experience in data architecture, analytics solutions, and/or cloud data platforms.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience delivering AI/ML and Generative AI solutions in production.
• 6+ years of experience designing and scaling enterprise data platforms on GCP, AWS, and Snowflake.
• Must have unrestricted authorization to work in the USA. No visa sponsoring available.

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading large‑scale, cross‑functional data and AI initiatives.
• Cloud platforms: GCP and AWS (multi‑cloud experience strongly preferred)
• Data platforms: Snowflake, BigQuery, Data Lakes, Lakehouse architectures
• Programming & analytics: Python, SQL, PySpark
• AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit‑learn, XGBoost)
• GenAI/LLM frameworks, vector databases, graph databases
• Data engineering tools (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Strong understanding of data modeling, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Strong architectural thinking and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to influence without authority and operate effectively in matrixed organizations.
• Self‑driven, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• Snowflake or Data Engineering certifications

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