Data Architect (Hadoop/ML/AI/ETL)

Location: In-office in Pittsburgh, PA; Strongsville, OH; or Dallas, TX

Salary: $91,000–$202,800 per year, plus incentive eligibility

Company

hirify.global is a large financial services organization focused on customer solutions, enterprise risk management, and technology-enabled banking services.

What you will do

• Design enterprise-wide data movement controls, reconciliation frameworks, checksum validation, threshold alerting, and schema evolution tracking.
• Define orchestration standards connecting Control-M batch workflows with Apache Airflow DAGs.
• Architect Apache Polaris REST catalog governance for Apache Iceberg, including RBAC and credential scoping.
• Implement and tune Trino across private infrastructure to federate queries across relational databases, Hadoop, and Iceberg.
• Architect graph database integrations for entity relationships, lineage, and semantic ontologies.
• Drive architecture roadmaps, design approvals, proof-of-concepts, compliance, and technology standards across multiple teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience and a bachelor's degree or comparable combination of education and experience.
• Experience with enterprise data architecture, data management, data warehousing, ETL/ELT, data modeling, APIs, and distributed computing.
• Strong architectural knowledge of on-premises Hadoop ecosystems, including HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, and Kerberos.
• Experience designing high-volume, low-latency data services and enterprise control, reconciliation, audit, governance, and lineage frameworks.
• Knowledge of SQL, machine learning, risk assessment, enterprise architecture, and logical data modeling.
• Must work in an in-office setting in Pittsburgh, Strongsville, or Dallas; hirify.global does not provide employment visa sponsorship or participate in STEM OPT.

Nice to have

• Conceptual understanding of Agentic AI for pipeline observability, metadata tagging, self-healing quality checks, and schema drift mitigation.
• Experience with advanced analytics, visualization, and modernization of legacy Hadoop workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, supportive, and customer-focused in-office workplace.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, HSA, and dependent-care benefits.
• 401(k) matching, pension, stock purchase plans, and educational assistance.
• Paid holidays, parental leave, occasional absence days, and 15–25 vacation days depending on career level.
• Wellness programs with financial incentives and additional family-care benefits.