job summary:
Position Summary
The Solution Engineer is responsible for designing, building, integrating, and supporting the enterprise Unstructured Data Platform. This role serves as a technical leader within a single-stack platform organization and focuses on enabling business capabilities through scalable cloud-native solutions, reusable ingestion services, metadata management, AI-enablement, and operational excellence.
The Solution Engineer will collaborate with Product Owners, Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that support ingestion, storage, governance, annotation, analytics, and AI-driven use cases.
This role supports the long-term vision of establishing a reusable enterprise platform that can manage and operationalize unstructured data including imagery, documents, LiDAR, sensor data, video, inspection records, and AI-generated metadata.
location: Gahanna, Ohio
job type: Contract
salary: $65 - 80 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Primary Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Solution Design
- Design scalable cloud-native solutions supporting enterprise unstructured data workloads.
- Define reference architectures, patterns, and standards for platform capabilities.
- Develop technology roadmaps aligned to business and platform strategy.
- Ensure solutions meet security, reliability, scalability, and operational requirements.
- Translate business requirements into technical solution designs.
Data Ingestion & Integration- Design and implement reusable ingestion services supporting:
- APIs
- Batch processing
- File transfer
- Event-driven architectures
- External partner integrations
- Create onboarding patterns for new data sources.
- Establish metadata capture standards during ingestion.
- Support integration of internal and external data providers.
Platform & Cloud Engineering- Build and support cloud-based platform services.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices.
- Develop automation for deployment, provisioning, and platform operations.
- Support monitoring, observability, operational health, and performance optimization.
- Participate in platform support and incident response activities.
Metadata & Governance Enablement- Design metadata structures and data discovery capabilities.
- Support implementation of:
- Metadata catalogs
- Data lineage
- Search and discovery
- Data classification
- Retention policies
- Partner with governance and security teams to ensure compliance requirements are met.
Annotation & AI Enablement- Integrate annotation and human-review services into platform workflows.
- Support AI/ML lifecycle activities including:
- Ground-truth data management
- Defect taxonomy management
- AI feedback capture
- Model output integration
- Enable AI metadata storage and retrieval patterns.
Human-in-the-Loop Workflows- Design workflows that combine automation and human review.
- Support implementation of inspection and validation processes.
- Enable business users to review, correct, and enrich AI-generated results.
- Ensure traceability and auditability of user actions.
DevSecOps & Automation- Implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Apply security controls throughout the platform lifecycle.
- Automate testing, monitoring, and operational processes.
- Support resiliency, backup, recovery, and operational readiness activities.
qualifications:
Required Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree in:
Computer Science
Engineering
Information Systems
Related technical discipline
Technical Experience
5+ years of solution engineering, software engineering, platform engineering, or cloud engineering experience.
Experience designing distributed cloud-native architectures.
Experience with API design and system integrations.
Experience working with enterprise data platforms.
Experience implementing automation and DevOps practices.
Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Cloud & Platform Experience
Experience with one or more:
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Experience with:
Object storage platforms
Data ingestion frameworks
Event-driven architectures
Modern API technologies
CI/CD tooling
Infrastructure as Code
skills:
AI,analytics,LiDAR,metadata management,integrating,Unstructured Data,annotation,governance,operational excellence,operationalize,use cases,sensor data
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
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