Data Architect

Stellent IT LLC; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellent IT LLC in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a highly experienced Data Platform Architect for a 12+ months contract. This hybrid role requires 3 days onsite and 2 days remote, with a focus on modernizing the enterprise data ecosystem and guiding large-scale cloud migrations.

The ideal candidate will lead target-state architecture, collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and business teams, and provide mentorship for Spark, Kafka, Databricks, and cloud-native services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data platform architecture, data engineering, or distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale cloud migration initiatives involving hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data.
• Strong software engineering background with Java, Python, SQL, and OO programming languages.
• Experience designing scalable, secure data architectures and governing data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state architecture for enterprise data platforms and cloud-native analytics solutions.
• Lead migration of large-scale data environments from on-prem to cloud.
• Design scalable, resilient data architectures for petabyte-scale workloads.
• Establish architectural standards, governance, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to align with cloud strategies.
• Evaluate technologies for storage, processing, streaming, governance, and observability.
• Provide technical leadership for Spark, Kafka, Databricks, and cloud services.
• Drive performance optimization, cost management, and operational excellence.
• Support migration roadmaps, risk assessments, and modernization strategies.

Job description

Job Title: Data Architect

Job Location: Jersey City, NJ (3 Days onsite, 2 Days Remote) Hybrid role.

Job Type:12+ Months contract

Submission Deadline: 10/08/2026

Interview Process: 2 virtual rounds
W2 Only
Note:

Please find a strong hands-on Data Platform Architect with 10+ years of experience and expertise in Databricks, Spark, Kafka, AWS, Java/Python, SQL, and large-scale cloud/data migrations.

Data Platform Architect:

We are seeking a highly experienced Data Platform Architect to lead the strategic modernization of our enterprise data ecosystem. This role will be responsible for defining and executing the architecture for large-scale data platform transformations, and utilizing cutting edge technologies both on-prem and in the cloud.

The ideal candidate has successfully delivered similar data modernization programs at enterprise scale and possesses deep expertise in cloud architectures, distributed computing, data engineering best practices, and large-scale data migrations. This individual will collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and business teams to establish the future-state data platform strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Define the target-state architecture for enterprise data platforms and cloud-native analytics solutions.

Lead the migration of large-scale data environments from on-premises platforms to a cloud environment.

Design scalable, resilient, and secure data architectures capable of supporting petabyte-scale workloads.

Establish architectural standards, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices.

Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure alignment with enterprise cloud strategies.

Evaluate and recommend technologies for data storage, processing, streaming, governance, and observability.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams implementing Spark, Kafka, Databricks, and cloud-native services.

Drive performance optimization, cost management, and operational excellence across the data platform.

Support executive stakeholders with migration roadmaps, risk assessments, and modernization strategies.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in data platform architecture, data engineering, or distributed systems.

Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale cloud migration initiatives involving hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data.

Strong experience with:

• o Databricks
• o Apache Spark
• o Apache Kafka
• o AMPS, MQ, Hadoop, or experience with other enterprise messaging systems
• o AWS cloud services
• o Large-scale data warehouse or lakehouse platforms

Experience migrating data from platforms such as Vertica, Hadoop, Teradata, Oracle, Snowflake, or similar technologies.

Strong software engineering background with expertise in:

• o Java
• o Python
• o SQL (any flavor)
• o Other object-oriented programming languages

Experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems.

Strong understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and operational monitoring.

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications

Databricks certification(s)

AWS Solutions Architect certification(s)

Experience implementing lakehouse architectures.

Experience designing streaming and real-time analytics platforms.

Experience within highly regulated financial services or enterprise environments.

Master's Degree

Navya Gupta

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