Enterprise Data Architect

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100% Remote (Continental United States)Full-TimeSenior
Salary100,000 - 150,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
8+ years
Required Skills
Cloud ComputingKafkaSnowflakeData engineeringSparkData modelingDatabricks

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Eight or more years of experience in data engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
  • Deep expertise across at least two major data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift.
  • Strong understanding of lakehouse architectures, modern table formats, and streaming systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, or Kafka at production scale.
  • Strong data modeling expertise across dimensional, normalized, and data-vault patterns.
  • Experience implementing governance, lineage, and catalog capabilities.
  • Solid grasp of cloud platforms, networking, identity, and cost optimization.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Track record of leading large data platform initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define the target-state architecture of the enterprise data platform, including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers.
  • Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, partitioning, file formats, and storage organization.
  • Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns leveraging technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
  • Design end-to-end data pipelines that balance latency, cost, reliability, and maintainability across batch and streaming workloads.
  • Lead the integration of governance, lineage, and catalog tools such as Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Unity Catalog, or DataHub.
  • Define security architecture including row- and column-level controls, masking, encryption, and identity-aware access patterns.
  • Establish data contract and data product principles to drive ownership, quality, and decoupling between producers and consumers.
  • Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on pipeline and warehouse design proposals across teams.
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