Data Platform Architect
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Sun, May 17, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Data Platform Architect, a full-time remote position requiring over 8 years of experience, responsible for defining and leading the architecture of the enterprise data platform, including ingestion, storage, processing, and governance.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the target-state architecture for the enterprise data platform, including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers
- Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, and storage organization
- Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on pipeline and warehouse design proposals across teams
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Eight or more years of experience in data engineering, with significant time in architecture roles
- Deep expertise across at least two major data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift
- Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, or Kafka at production scale
- Strong data modeling expertise across dimensional, normalized, and data-vault patterns
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