Lead Data Architect – Enterprise (Contract, Remote – USA)
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Job Summary
This is a remote position.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Architect to define own and evolve our enterprise data architecture. This role is responsible for designing scalable secure and governed data platforms that support analytics reporting and operational use cases across the organization. You will work closely with engineering analytics security and business stakeholders to translate strategy into robust data solutions.
This is a senior hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise and strong stakeholder influence.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Strategy
- Define and maintain enterprise-wide data architecture standards principles and roadmaps
- Design scalable data platforms including data lakes data warehouses and lake-house architectures
- Lead architecture decisions for batch and real-time data processing
- Ensure alignment between business strategy and data architecture
Data Platforms & Engineering
- Architect and oversee ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration solutions
- Guide design and implementation of streaming and event-driven architectures
- Select and govern enterprise data technologies tools and platforms
- Review and approve data designs models and solutions
Governance Security & Quality
- Establish and enforce data governance data quality and metadata management practices
- Ensure compliance with data security privacy and regulatory requirements
- Define data lineage access control and audit-ability standards
- Partner with security and risk teams on enterprise data controls
Cloud & Modern Architecture
- Lead cloud and hybrid data architecture across AWS Azure and/or GCP
- Drive cloud-native scalable and cost-optimized data solutions
- Support infrastructure-as-code and automation practices
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as the senior data architecture authority across programs and initiatives
- Mentor and guide data architects engineers and analytics teams
- Collaborate with product engineering BI and business leaders
- Communicate architectural decisions to technical and executive audiences
Required Qualifications
- 10 years of experience in data architecture data engineering or enterprise systems
- 5 years in a senior or lead architecture role
- Strong experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms
- Deep knowledge of data modeling integration and processing patterns
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms
- Strong understanding of data governance security and compliance
- Proven ability to influence architecture across large complex organizations
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Technical Skills
- Data Warehousing Data Lakes Lakehouse Architecture
- ETL / ELT Batch and Streaming Data Processing
- SQL and data modeling methodologies
- Cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP)
- Technologies such as Snowflake Databricks Redshift BigQuery Synapse
- Kafka Spark Airflow or similar tools
- CI/CD DataOps and architecture governance practices
Nice to Have
- Experience in regulated industries (finance healthcare government)
- MDM metadata management or data catalog tools
- BI and analytics platform architecture
- Cost optimization and performance tuning experience
- Experience supporting AI/ML or advanced analytics platforms
Required Skills:
Experience with AWS Azure or GCP Strong knowledge of networking security and cloud services Experience with Terraform ARM or CloudFormation Familiarity with containers and orchestration tools Strong troubleshooting and optimization skills
Company Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Key Skills
- SAP BusinessObjects
- Enterprise Architecture
- Hybris
- SAP HANA
- SAP
- TOGAF
- Solution Architecture
- Cloud Architecture
- SAP BW 4HANA
- Salesforce
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP ERP
