Akkodis is seeking a Data Architect for a Contract with a client located in Chicago, IL. Strong hands-on experience with OpenAI, ChatGPT, AI/ML, LLMs, Snowflake, AWS AI, and Infrastructure.
Rate Range: $80/hr - $82/hr (The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors)
Purpose:
At Client, we are committed to advancing care through data-driven decisions and automation. This mission drives how we innovate and shape the future of travel. Achieving this requires exceptional talent-individuals who are curious, innovative, and passionate about delivering outstanding experiences for our guests, customers, owners, and colleagues.
We are seeking a versatile AI Platforms & Community Architect to support and scale the use of OpenAI and generative AI technologies across the organization. This role sits at the intersection of platform administration, solution architecture, and user enablement, ensuring secure, scalable, and effective adoption of AI capabilities.
You will manage the OpenAI/ChatGPT environment, oversee governance and access controls, design AI-driven solutions, and foster a strong internal AI community. This is a hands-on, highly visible role working across cybersecurity, engineering, data, and business teams. Along with this, you will be a Snowflake data architect. As an Architect, you will lead the creation of the strategic enterprise data architecture for the client. Partners with internal stakeholders define the principles, standards, and guidelines regarding data flows, data aggregation, data migration, data curation, data model, data consumption and data placements. Provide expertise regarding data architecture in critical programs, data strategy and data quality remediation activities. Validates data architecture for adherence to defined policies, standards and guidelines, including regulatory directives.
You will be a part of a ground-floor, hands-on, highly visible team which is positioned for growth and is highly collaborative and passionate about data.
Position Responsibilities:
AI Platform Administration & Governance
• Administer OpenAI platforms (ChatGPT Enterprise, APIs, custom GPTs)
• Manage user access, permissions, and role-based access control (RBAC)
• Configure and manage workspaces, environments (Dev/Test/Prod), and policies
• Implement SCIM provisioning/deprovisioning and lifecycle management
Partner with Cybersecurity to:
• Obtain approvals for AI use cases
• Conduct risk assessments (prompt injection, data leakage, misuse)
• Support threat modeling for LLM-based solutions
• Ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO 27001, and internal security policies
• Implement data protection controls (PII masking, redaction, tokenization)
• Design and support AI/LLM-powered solutions across business functions
Guide teams on:
• Prompt engineering best practices
• Output validation and guardrails
• Hallucination mitigation strategies
• Support
• Custom GPT development
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
• Model evaluation and optimization
• Stay current with evolving AI/LLM technologies and recommend use cases
• Integrate AI capabilities with ServiceNow:
• Access requests and approvals
• Incident and change management
• AI service catalog
Manage and optimize Jira workflows:
• Feature requests and backlog
• Bug tracking
• AI use case onboarding
• Automate workflows and provisioning via APIs
Data Platform Integration (Snowflake & Cortex)
• Work with Snowflake to enable secure AI data access and pipelines
• Leverage Snowflake Cortex for embedded AI/LLM capabilities
• Ensure proper data governance, masking, and access controls
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks)
Utilize AWS services, including:
• IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch
• API Gateway, Step Functions (preferred)
• Support secure integration of AI services within cloud environments
• Manage secrets, API keys, and secure connectivity
• Develop automation using Python, PowerShell, or Bash
Certifications;
• AI/ML certifications (preferred)
• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps)
• Other cloud certifications (Azure, GCP) are a plus
Education:
Preferred to have a Bachelors or Master’s degree in computer science.
If you are interested in this job, you can click APPLY NOW For other opportunities available at Akkodis go to www.akkodis.com. If you have questions about the position, please contact Nitish Kumar at Nitish.Kumar2@akkodisgroup.com
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled:
Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.
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