Data Platform Architect
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, May 20, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To support a growing team, the full-time Data Platform Architect will define and lead the architecture of an enterprise data platform, focusing on ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers in a 100% remote environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the target-state architecture of the enterprise data platform, including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers
- Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, and storage organization while designing end-to-end data pipelines
- Lead the integration of governance and catalog tools, and mentor data engineers on platform standards and best practices
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 understanding of lakehouse architectures and modern table formats
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