Banyan acquires leading software businesses and helps them grow through operating expertise, applied AI, capital, and a permanent ownership model. Backed by Norwest.
About the role
We are hiring our first Lead AI Architect to design, build, and run the centralized data and AI platform that powers Banyan. The cornerstone of the work is a centralized data model, a Banyan data lake, that consolidates the data we already have and unlocks safe AI experimentation for our internal functional teams: Finance, M&A, Business Development, and others.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years building data and AI platforms in production at meaningful scale. You have shipped, not just diagrammed
- Deep AWS expertise. Hands-on with S3, IAM, KMS, networking, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, Redshift, SageMaker, Bedrock, and EKS or ECS
- Real experience with modern AI/ML platform patterns: feature stores, model registries, experiment tracking, prompt and evaluation frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, and basic agentic workflows
- A working point of view on AI safety: data classification, PII handling, access tiering, evaluation, and model-risk controls
- Hands-on coder. Strong Python and SQL. Comfortable in Terraform or AWS CDK. Reads logs, fixes issues, ships pull requests
- Player-coach experience. You have led small teams, mentored engineers, set hiring bars, and grown people
More about this role
Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.
We are hiring our first Lead AI Architect to design, build, and run the centralized data and AI platform that powers Banyan. The cornerstone of the work is a centralized data model, a Banyan data lake, that consolidates the data we already have and unlocks safe AI experimentation for our internal functional teams: Finance, M&A, Business Development, and others.
This role is modeled on a classical Enterprise Architect role and adapted for an AI-first world. You will set the target-state...
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