Insights Architect, Data & AI

Primary Function of Position

We are seeking an experienced Insights Architect Data & AI to shape and deliver scalable data analytics and AI capabilities that improve business decisions across operations. The initial focus will include Service Supply Chain with opportunity to apply the same product and architecture leadership across other business domains over time.

This role sits at the intersection of business processes enterprise applications data analytics and AI. The ideal candidate combines technical depth with business curiosity and product thinking. They will partner with stakeholders to understand how work gets done identify the decisions and problems that matter most and translate them into reusable data products and technical solutions.

The architect will work across a transforming landscape that includes SAP and o9 as foundational business platforms and Snowflake as a core enterprise data platform. They will help establish trusted enterprise data common metrics and KPIs semantic models and governed data products that enable self-service insights advanced analytics data science and AI-assisted decision support.

We are looking for someone who can move fluidly between business and technical conversations bring structure to ambiguity recognize patterns across use cases and influence teams to build durable capabilities rather than isolated solutions.

Essential Job Duties

• Develop a deep understanding of business processes decisions workflows pain points and desired outcomes across planning execution inventory repair and related operational areas.
• Partner with business leaders and domain experts to frame complex or ambiguous problems distinguish symptoms from root causes and identify where data analytics automation or AI can materially improve decisions.
• Translate business problems into clear product capabilities data requirements analytical requirements technical specifications and scalable solution architectures.
• Lead the design of reusable data products that combine trusted data business definitions standardized metrics and KPIs analytical models lineage governance and semantic context.
• Architect capabilities across SAP o9 Snowflake and related platforms while balancing near-term outcomes with scalable patterns and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with data engineering teams to design data models ETL/ELT pipelines integration patterns data quality controls and analytical structures that support business-facing products.
• Design and evolve semantic models in Snowflake that make enterprise information easier to understand discover and consistently consume across analytics and AI use cases.
• Evaluate knowledge graphs ontologies and related semantic approaches to connect business entities relationships metrics and operational context for richer investigation and root-cause analysis.
• Help move the organization from disconnected datasets and dashboards toward governed reusable data products and trusted self-service analytics.
• Partner with data science and AI teams to provide well-defined governed data and business context for advanced analytics machine learning and GenAI-enabled solutions.
• Recognize patterns across individual requests and convert them into common data products architecture patterns semantic models standards or reusable capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional business and technical conversations evaluate alternatives and tradeoffs and create alignment across business product application architecture engineering analytics and AI teams.
• Influence without direct authority challenge assumptions constructively and guide complex initiatives from problem definition through design implementation adoption and continuous improvement.
• Communicate complex technical concepts in clear business language and translate business context into sufficient technical detail for delivery teams.
• Provide architectural guidance and coaching to engineers analysts architects and product teams raising the quality and consistency of solutions across the organization.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in data and analytics architecture data products data warehousing business intelligence enterprise applications or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to learn complex business domains and translate business problems into scalable technical solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Proven experience designing and delivering data and analytics products from problem definition through implementation and adoption.
• Strong understanding of data architecture data modeling ETL/ELT integration patterns data quality lineage governance and enterprise data warehousing.
• Hands-on proficiency with SQL and modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake or comparable technologies.
• Experience developing metrics KPIs dimensional models and semantic or business-facing data models.
• Ability to recognize patterns across business problems and design reusable capabilities rather than one-time solutions.
• Demonstrated success working across business product application architecture data engineering analytics and data science teams.
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to independently navigate ambiguity evaluate tradeoffs and determine a path forward.
• Ability to lead technical and business conversations influence without authority and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to distill complex topics for different audiences.

Required Education and Training

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Data and Analytics Supply Chain Business or a related field or equivalent relevant experience.
• Masters degree in a related discipline is preferred.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with planning inventory fulfillment execution service operations repair manufacturing or related operational processes.
• Experience with SAP o9 or comparable enterprise planning and execution platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data architectures.
• Experience designing reusable enterprise data products and governed semantic models.
• Familiarity with knowledge graphs ontologies or related techniques for representing business relationships and context.
• Experience enabling advanced analytics data science machine learning or GenAI solutions using enterprise data.
• Experience designing capabilities that enable self-service analysis investigation and root-cause analysis.
• Experience working in complex application and data transformation environments.

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

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Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the governments licensing process can take 3 to 6 months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (TCP) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).  

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employeesstart date which may or may not be flexible and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes. 

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This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidates experience knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidates qualifications consistent with applicable law.

Accommodation & Accessibility Notice:

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We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time