Job Summary:
Sun Communities & Sun Outdoors is seeking a Data Platform Architect to design and guide the architecture of their enterprise data platform. This role is crucial for ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable data management while partnering with various teams to establish data models and standards that support analytics and AI workloads.
Responsibilities:
• Define and maintain the architecture of Sun's enterprise data platform, including the data lake, enterprise data warehouse, lakehouse components, and downstream analytical use cases. (Essential)
• Establish and promote scalable data platform patterns, such as ingestion architecture (batch, streaming), processing frameworks, and domain‑oriented design. (Essential)
• Design canonical and analytical data models that support enterprise reporting, analytics, and AI workloads. (Essential)
• Review and guide platform data models (conceptual, logical, physical) to ensure alignment, reusability, and consistency across domains. (Essential)
• Set and enforce platform architecture standards and guardrails, balancing innovation with security, quality, and long-term maintainability. (Essential)
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, and product teams to design data structures optimized for business intelligence, analytics, machine learning, and data-driven features.
• Work closely with governance, security, legal, and compliance teams to ensure architecture incorporates data quality, metadata, access controls, and responsible AI principles.
• Evaluate and recommend data platform technologies, providing guidance on performance, scalability, cost, and alignment with long‑term architecture.
• Monitor emerging trends in cloud data architectures, lakehouse technologies, semantic modeling, and AI platform services to inform long‑term roadmap direction.
• Other job duties and special projects as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• High School Diploma or GED (Required)
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related field (Required)
• 8 years in proven experience in data engineering, data architecture, or analytics engineering (Required)
• 5 years in hands‑on exposure to modern cloud data platforms (Required)
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Strong expertise in data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical) and understanding of how models support analytics and AI workloads (Required)
• Demonstrated proficiency with modern cloud data environments such as Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse/Fabric, BigQuery, Redshift (Required)
• Experience defining architecture standards, reusable patterns, and enterprise data platform guardrails (Required)
• Deep understanding of integration patterns (batch, streaming, change data capture) and metadata‑driven design (Required)
Preferred:
• Experience supporting or enabling machine learning or AI platforms
• Ability to influence cross‑functional stakeholders without direct authority
• Experience working within a federated or domain‑oriented data architecture model (e.g., data mesh principles)
Company:
Sun Communities & Sun Outdoors are the nation's premier provider of manufactured home communities and RV resorts. Founded in 1975, the company is headquartered in Southfield, MI, US, , with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.