Senior Data Architect
Location: United States (Hybrid/Remote as per project requirements)
Experience: 10+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Architect to lead the design and architecture of enterprise-scale cloud data platforms supporting mission-critical analytics and business intelligence initiatives. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, defining enterprise architecture standards, mentoring engineering teams, and driving modern cloud-based data solutions.
The successful candidate will act as the technical leader for the overall data architecture while collaborating closely with cloud engineers, data engineers, business stakeholders, and analytics teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design enterprise Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Marts
- Develop logical and physical data models
- Define enterprise data architecture standards and best practices
- Architect scalable cloud-based data platforms
- Design metadata management and data catalog strategies
- Optimize large-scale data warehouse performance
- Design data partitioning, archival and retention strategies
- Develop Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) models
- Establish governance, security and RBAC architecture
- Collaborate with engineering teams on CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
- Mentor junior and mid-level data engineers and architects
- Work with business users to gather and translate data requirements
- Support enterprise reporting and visualization platforms
Required Skills
- 10+ years of Data Architecture/Data Warehousing experience
- Strong AWS ecosystem knowledge (S3, Redshift, Aurora PostgreSQL)
- Expertise in enterprise data modeling
- Data Lake architecture
- Enterprise Data Warehouse design
- Metadata management
- Data Catalog implementation
- Performance tuning
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Enterprise Security & RBAC
- Cloud Architecture
- Databricks or similar distributed data platform
- Strong SQL
- Excellent stakeholder communication
Preferred Skills
- Databricks
- Unity Catalog
- Delta Live Tables
- Collibra
- Alation
- Informatica
- Palantir Foundry
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Qlik
- AI/ML platforms
- Federal or Government project experience
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