Data Platform Architect

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$175,000 annually

Company

Technology consulting and software development organization delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Define the target-state architecture for enterprise data platform ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers.
• Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, partitioning, file formats, storage organization, and data contracts.
• Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming solutions using platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi.
• Design reliable and maintainable batch and streaming pipelines while balancing latency, cost, and performance.
• Lead governance, lineage, catalog, security, disaster recovery, multi-region, and high-availability architecture.
• Guide architecture reviews, mentor data engineers and architects, and partner with ML, BI, product, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of data engineering experience, including significant experience in architecture roles; the position description also lists 12+ years of experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Deep expertise in at least two major data platforms, such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Strong knowledge of lakehouse architectures, modern table formats, streaming systems, and dimensional, normalized, and data-vault modeling.
• Production-scale experience with Spark, Flink, or Kafka, plus governance, lineage, catalog, cloud, networking, identity, and cost optimization.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States; U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. New H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.

Nice to have

• Experience with data mesh or data product architectures.
• Familiarity with dbt Semantic Layer, Cube, or LookML.
• Experience with regulated industries, data residency, or audit requirements.
• Cloud or platform certifications and public writing or speaking on data architecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct full-time W-2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.