We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable data architectures. The ideal candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, analytics teams, and IT leadership to ensure data solutions meet business and technical requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise data architecture, including data lakes, data warehouses, and lakehouse solutions.
- Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Define data integration, data transformation, and data migration strategies.
- Establish data governance, data quality, metadata management, and master data management standards.
- Ensure data security, privacy, compliance, and access controls.
- Optimize data architecture for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
- Collaborate with data engineers, BI developers, data scientists, and application teams.
- Define architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and best practices.
- Evaluate cloud data platforms and emerging technologies.
- Document architecture designs, data flows, and technical specifications.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Strong experience in data architecture, data modeling, and database design.
- Proficiency in SQL and relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data integration tools.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, or Google BigQuery.
- Understanding of data governance, data security, and regulatory compliance.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management sk