# Lead AI Architect - Data Platform at Banyan Software

- Company: Banyan Software
- What the company does: Banyan acquires leading software businesses and helps them grow through operating expertise, applied AI, capital, and a permanent ownership model. Backed by Norwest.
- Company website: https://banyansoftware.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/banyansoftware/jobs/5190254007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/banyan-software-lead-ai-architect-data-platform/

## 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

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