Data & Analytics Architect — Lead Modern Data Platforms

Trace3; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Trace3 seeks a Data Architect to join the Data and Analytics Services team. This role combines hands-on architecture, technical leadership, consulting, and delivery responsibility to help clients design, modernize, govern, and operationalize data platforms that support analytics, AI, reporting, and decision-making.

The ideal candidate moves between executive conversations, architecture workshops, and detailed technical design, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to business

Qualifications

• Experience designing data architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments.
• Translate business requirements into durable technical architectures and roadmaps.
• Define patterns for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, modeling, governance, security, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem data platforms.
• Produce architecture diagrams, standards, reference architectures, and implementation plans.
• Guide engineering teams and mentor junior staff through governance, reviews, and enablement.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

Executive communication

Data governance

Data modeling

CI/CD for data

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Trace3 seeks a Data Architect to join the Data and Analytics Services team. This role combines hands-on architecture, technical leadership, consulting, and delivery responsibility to help clients design, modernize, govern, and operationalize data platforms that support analytics, AI, reporting, and decision-making.

The ideal candidate moves between executive conversations, architecture workshops, and detailed technical design, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to business