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Principal Data & AI Architect

The Hartford · Charlotte, NC · posted 10 days ago

In short: Principal Data & AI Architect at The Hartford in Charlotte, NC, posted 10 days ago.

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The job

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EmployerThe Hartford
LocationCharlotte, North Carolina
FieldTechnology › Data, analytics and AI
LevelSenior Level
Source categoryData and Analytics
Posted2026-10-30 (10 days ago)
Work arrangementOn-site at the location listed
PayNot published in the source listing

Job description

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We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

As a Principal Data & AI Architect, you will be a strategic technical leader responsible for defining and advancing data architecture that makes enterprise data trusted, connected, reusable, and ready for analytics, machine learning, Generative AI, and agentic applications. You will develop line-of-business and cross-domain architectures spanning data products, semantic layers, cloud data platforms, open lakehouse technologies, metadata, integration, and AI-ready data access. You will work in a multi-cloud environment where Snowflake on AWS is the primary enterprise data platform and Google Cloud provides strategic AI, machine learning, agent, and advanced analytics capabilities.

As a senior individual contributor, you will influence enterprise technology decisions, establish reusable architecture patterns, guide complex initiatives, and mentor architects and engineers across the organization. You will also work hands-on with emerging technologies to rapidly experiment, build prototypes, and demonstrate the art of the possible for new data and AI capabilities.

This role will have a hybrid work arrangement with 3 days a week in office in any of the following locations: Charlotte, NC; Hartford, CT; Columbus, OH or Chicago, IL. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US without company sponsorship.



Primary Job Responsibilities

Strategic Data Architecture Leadership: Define line-of-business and cross-domain data architectures aligned with enterprise data, AI, cloud, and technology strategies. Translate business needs into target-state architectures, roadmaps, standards, and reusable patterns.

AI-Ready Data Architecture: Design governed data foundations that make structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data discoverable, understandable, accessible, and fit for analytics, machine learning, Generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic solutions.

Semantic Layer Architecture: Define and evolve semantic models, governed metrics, business vocabularies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs that provide consistent business meaning across analytics and AI. Establish guidance for semantic governance, lifecycle management, interoperability, lineage, provenance, and access control.

Agentic Analytics: Architect the data and semantic capabilities required for conversational and agentic analytics, including natural-language data access, proactive insight generation, anomaly analysis, root-cause analysis, and decision support. Define controls for grounding, query validation, traceability, observability, evaluation, and human review.

Multi-Cloud Data Architecture: Establish secure and cost-effective patterns for integrating Snowflake on AWS with Google Cloud AI and analytics services using selective replication, federation, APIs, streaming, caching, open table formats, or other approved access methods.

Apache Iceberg and Open Lakehouse: Define standards and adoption guidance for Apache Iceberg, object storage, open catalogs, table lifecycle management, and multi-engine interoperability across Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud, Spark, and related technologies.

Data Product and Integration Architecture: Define architecture for governed data products, including domain boundaries, data contracts, canonical entities, quality expectations, metadata, lineage, access interfaces, service levels, and lifecycle ownership. Guide batch, streaming, event-driven, API, change-data-capture, and federated integration patterns.

Governance, Security, Privacy, and Responsible AI: Embed data quality, metadata, lineage, security, privacy, retention, regulatory compliance, provenance, and responsible AI requirements into architecture designs. Ensure AI-enabled solutions support traceability, explainability, reliability, auditability, and appropriate human oversight.

Technology Leadership and Influence: Lead architecture reviews, assess emerging technologies, and perform focused hands-on experiments and rapid prototyping to validate concepts, evaluate feasibility, and demonstrate the art of the possible. Document architecture decisions and create standards, reference architectures, decision trees, and implementation patterns. Influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption across architecture, engineering, analytics, data science, product, governance, privacy, and cybersecurity teams.

Mentorship and Community Leadership: Mentor architects and engineers, elevate technical practices, and contribute to architecture forums and communities of practice. Communicate complex architecture choices in terms of business value, risk, interoperability, reliability, and cost.

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Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:
$140,000 - $210,000
Equal Opportunity Employer/Sex/Race/Color/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age

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About the role

This is a Senior Level role in the Technology field (Data, analytics and AI) at The Hartford. Senior roles usually expect substantial experience, ownership of results and often the ability to guide others.

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Estimate for a wage earner: 2026 federal brackets and standard deduction (IRS), Social Security 6.2% up to $184,500, Medicare 1.45% (+0.9% above $200,000 single / $250,000 married), and a state rate you set; set your own state tax rate. It ignores credits, pre-tax deductions, local taxes and benefits. Sources: IRS: tax year 2026 inflation adjustments · SSA wage base per Federal Register notice 2025-19763.

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The city

The job is in Charlotte, NC. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Charlotte compares. Among the 100 largest places in North Carolina, Charlotte is #1 by population, #9 for remote work (#1 = most), #77 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #72 for homeownership (#1 = highest). Its county, Mecklenburg County, is #2 of 100 counties for average pay ($88,111).

The place in numbers

Charlotte has 903,844 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 8.4% of the population of North Carolina. It covers 312 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 2,901 people per square mile. The median age is 34.5, 12% younger than the state median (34.5 against 39.1).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,612 a month (rent plus utilities), 31% above the state median ($1,612 against $1,228). Over a year that is 23.6% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $385,700, which is 4.7 times the median household income ($82,068). 51.0% of households own their home, 23% below the state average (51.0% against 66.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metropolitan area has 1,358,370 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $49,990 a year, about the same as the national median ($49,990 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (146,340 jobs, median $47,210); transportation and material moving (142,580 jobs, median $40,550); sales and related (139,760 jobs, median $40,880). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.4 times) and business and financial operations (1.3 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($133,220) and computer and mathematical ($120,930). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Mecklenburg County was 3.3%. 72.4% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Mecklenburg County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 57.4% drive alone, 1.9% use public transit, 1.7% walk, 28.8% work from home. 10.6% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 24% below the state average (10.6% against 13.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

48.0% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 35% above the state share (48.0% against 35.6%). 18.7% of residents were born outside the United States, 106% above the state share (18.7% against 9.1%). The poverty rate is 11.7%, 10% below the state rate (11.7% against 13.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 81°F (27.1°C), and the coolest is Jan at 40°F (4.4°C). About 1,146 mm (45 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Jul is the wettest month (112 mm) and Jan the driest (80 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Pineville (9 miles, rent 4% lower); Matthews (9 miles, rent 9% higher); Mint Hill (10 miles, rent 5% lower); Stallings (12 miles, rent 17% higher). Rent differences are against Charlotte; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

CITY Official statistics Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year (via Census Reporter) · Data: ACS 2020–2024

Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Charlotte, NC that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.

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Place ⇅Distance from the job city ⇅Median rent ⇅Median home value ⇅Median household income ⇅Commute 45+ min ⇅Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅Open jobs there ⇅
Charlotte, NC0 mi$1,612$385,700$82,06810.6%n/aJobs
Pineville, NC9 mi$1,552$395,100$69,3549.1%n/a—
Matthews, NC9 mi$1,764$445,100$108,61110.7%n/a—
Mint Hill, NC10 mi$1,528$428,900$100,86016.9%n/a—
Stallings, NC12 mi$1,882$428,000$115,97416.1%n/a—
Belmont, NC12 mi$1,365$395,000$94,88312.8%n/a—
Mount Holly, NC12 mi$1,256$337,800$79,38513.2%n/a—
Harrisburg, NC12 mi$2,640$478,000$148,25415.9%n/a—
Huntersville, NC14 mi$1,834$472,900$120,51613.7%n/a—
Weddington, NC14 mi$1,927$824,100$190,76614.5%n/a—
Indian Trail, NC14 mi$2,077$385,000$108,48317.7%n/a—
Fort Mill, SC15 mi$1,503$487,500$121,82315.9%n/a—
Tega Cay, SC16 mi$1,408$529,200$142,00025.6%n/a—
Lake Wylie, SC16 mi$1,710$485,600$112,09728.3%n/a—
Concord, NC17 mi$1,451$353,700$86,92117.3%n/a—
Cornelius, NC18 mi$1,722$559,400$113,76714.1%n/a—
Davidson, NC19 mi$1,652$687,700$166,55613.2%n/a—
Waxhaw, NC19 mi$1,840$549,400$131,89425.6%n/a—
Gastonia, NC20 mi$1,204$277,600$64,05919.3%n/a—
Monroe, NC21 mi$1,246$309,100$72,54023.4%n/a—

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Distances

CITY Calculation (straight line) Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer (coordinates) · Data: 2024

How far Charlotte, NC is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.

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From ⇅Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅Population of that city ⇅
Charlotte, NC0 mi903,844
Jacksonville, FL340 mi977,670
Columbus, OH350 mi914,802
Indianapolis, IN429 mi885,860
Philadelphia, PA455 mi1,579,706
New York, NY532 mi8,483,844
Chicago, IL589 mi2,711,226
Houston, TX926 mi2,328,253
Dallas, TX927 mi1,307,930
Oklahoma City, OK939 mi697,125
Fort Worth, TX960 mi963,194
Austin, TX1,039 mi979,539
San Antonio, TX1,105 mi1,479,835
Denver, CO1,351 mi718,877
Phoenix, AZ1,779 mi1,642,323
San Diego, CA2,074 mi1,389,526
Los Angeles, CA2,126 mi3,857,263
San Jose, CA2,270 mi990,138
Seattle, WA2,283 mi754,195
San Francisco, CA2,332 mi830,235

Nearby cities with open jobs (within 120 miles)

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City ⇅Straight-line distance ⇅Open jobs ⇅
Columbia, SC81 mi5
Chapel Hill, NC112 mi6

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