Senior Solution Architect - Data, Ontology & AI Platforms

Blackford Technologies • abu dhabi, abu dhabi • Posted June 13, 2026

About the Role

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to own the technical vision and lead an engineering team building a modern data, semantic, and AI platform. You will be the technical authority for how data flows, gains semantic structure, trains models, and powers AI agents while leading a multidisciplinary team of data engineers, ML engineers, semantic ontology engineers, and backend developers from design to production.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end architecture of the data, semantic, and AI stack and the contracts between layers (GraphQL, REST, protobuf, event streams, tool‑calling interfaces). Lead and mentor the engineering team, reviewing designs and PRs against shared architecture decisions and reference patterns. Architect the data platform: batch ingestion, a versioned lakehouse with branch‑based safety (staging quality gates promotion), distributed transformation and orchestration, dataset versioning, and event‑driven pipelines. Design the...