Data Architect

Caylent

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Generous holidays and flexible PTO

Competitive phantom equity

Paid for exams and certifications

Peer bonus awards

State of the art laptop and tools

Equipment Office Stipend

Individual professional development计划

Annual stipend for Learning

Job summary

Caylent is seeking an experienced Architect to lead enterprise-scale data solutions within engagements, guiding technical direction and ensuring performance, security, and scalability. The role focuses on data platform development or migration modernization, maintaining depth in one core area while staying aware of related domains.

You will design end-to-end data architectures, collaborate with cloud-native teams, document decisions, and drive FinOps-aligned designs.

Qualifications

6+ years in data engineering, database engineering, or architecture roles.
3+ years designing cloud-based data solutions.
3+ years in the AWS data landscape.
Advanced English (minimum C1).

Responsibilities

Lead architectural design for data platforms or modernization programs.
Ensure scalability, viability, and production readiness.
Communicate architectural decisions clearly.
Produce architectural documentation, assessments, and roadmaps.
Enforce architecture standards and documentation.
Define IaC and automation strategy with FinOps alignment.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

AWS

Advanced English

Tools

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Automation

Job description

Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, we combine deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic’s Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production. Our capabilities span generative and agentic AI, cloud migration and modernization, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, managed services, security and compliance, and customer experience transformation. At Caylent, our people always come first. We are a fully remote global company with employees in Canada, the United States and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!

The Mission

Architect responsible for designing enterprise-scale data solutions within engagements, guiding technical direction, and ensuring high standards of performance, security, and scalability.

Architects maintain primary depth in one core area (between Data Platform Development and Data Migration Modernization) while maintaining architectural awareness across both.

Your Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

Lead architectural design for data platforms or modernization programs
Ensure technical viability, scalability, and production readiness
Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly
Produce architectural documentation, assessments, and roadmaps

Required Technical Qualifications

Platform Architecture Focus

End-to-end modern data platform architecture design (lakehouse, ingestion, processing, access layers)
Experience architecting scalable cloud-native systems
Advanced distributed processing and streaming architectures
Platform security, networking, and automation
Cost estimation and performance optimization

Migration Modernization Architecture Focus