Lead Data Architect

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building. About the Role This is a data-heavy, hands-on leadership role for someone who can dig deep into complex datasets themselves and guide a team through equally complex problems. We are looking for someone who can only reviews others' work but also is a strong individual contributor with senior-level technical caliber who can roll up their sleeves on the hardest analyses, set the technical bar for the team, and unblock analysts when the work gets genuinely difficult. Key Responsibilities • Lead and execute complex, high-stakes analyses — deep-dive investigations, statistical modelling, and multi-source data problems that require real technical depth, not just query-writing • Guide and unblock the team on difficult technical problems: query optimization, data modeling challenges, messy/ambiguous datasets, and edge cases junior analysts get stuck on • Write advanced, performant SQL against large and complex datasets (multi-table