Staff Data Architect

About the role

As a Staff Data Architect focusing on AI & ML, you will design how the company maximizes leverage from its data through machine learning and artificial intelligence. This role spans multiple domains and sits at the intersection of our data platform and the AI/ML capabilities built on top of it. You will own the architectural direction for both using AI to enhance our pipelines/platform and for building AI-native capabilities that transform our data assets into differentiated products.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural vision for applying AI across the data platform — both to accelerate how data is ingested, modeled, and delivered, and to unlock new capabilities from our data assets.
• Architect an agentic, AI-assisted "data pipeline factory" — the patterns, guardrails, and standards that let AI and agents build, test, and maintain production data pipelines with strong engineering discipline.
• Design and evolve AI-native tools and services that take advantage of the company's data assets, ensuring they are built on sound, reusable architectural foundations rather than one-off solutions.
• Define the architecture and scope for advanced ML and deep learning workloads on the data platform, including vector and unified search across the company's data.
• Establish reference architectures, contracts, and standards that keep ML and AI data flows interoperable, observable, reproducible, and ML-ready by default.
• Prevent fragmentation and duplication across AI and ML efforts by representing the data organization's end-to-end view and driving convergence on shared patterns.
• Partner with data, ML, and engineering teams to translate ambitious AI and data ideas into concrete, buildable architecture, bridging strategy and execution.
• Evaluate emerging AI, ML, and data technologies and recommend where the company should adopt, standardize, or invest to create durable advantage.
• Oversee the performance, cost, and reliability of AI and ML data systems, continually improving efficiency as they scale.
• Communicate the value and direction of this work to stakeholders across and beyond the data organization, building the alignment needed to move it forward.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data platforms, and Big Data with demonstrated experience in ML engineering.
• Deeply technical and analytical, with hands-on architectural experience across Data Warehousing, Streaming, Big Data, and AI/ML systems.
• Strong hands-on proficiency with Databricks as a data lakehouse, plus dbt/Spark and modern data modeling.
• Demonstrated experience architecting ML and AI workloads, including advanced ML or deep learning, and ideally vector/semantic/unified search, as durable, production-grade systems.
• Practical experience using AI tooling and agents to accelerate development while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals: version control discipline, review standards, automated testing, validation gates, and reproducibility.
• A systems-first mindset toward AI, treating LLMs and agents as components within well-defined architectural boundaries and governance.
• Experience leading large-scale data and AI/ML projects in batch and streaming environments.
• Ability to influence multiple teams, functional areas, and levels of leadership, and to align stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to see around corners, predict needs, and identify patterns before they become problems.
• Strong data security and compliance awareness.
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.

About the company

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product. In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans (some as low as $0 per paycheck) including fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• Generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), 14 paid company holidays, and paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance).
• 401k with up to a 5% match.
• Commuter benefits and pet insurance.

Pay

The applicable salary range for this position is $170,000 - $210,000 USD, dependent on relevant experience, location, business needs, and market demand.