Data Architect-68464

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Architect to define and govern enterprise data architecture across cloud platforms and analytics ecosystems.

You will design scalable models, lead ETL/ELT pipelines, and translate business needs into robust technical solutions. You will mentor data engineers, drive modernization with Lakehouse architectures, AWS services, Snowflake, and streaming tech, and partner with product teams to enable advanced analytics and AI use cases.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development.
• 5+ years leading data engineering initiatives and delivering enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Proven experience designing and owning enterprise data architecture, not just developing individual pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture across conceptual, logical, and physical models.
• Architect scalable cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions.
• Lead architecture and implementation of ETL/ELT, batch processing, streaming, and real-time data integration solutions.
• Design enterprise data solutions supporting BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting initiatives.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Establish architecture patterns and standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, integration, and consumption.
• Design distributed, scalable, highly available, and high-performance data architectures.
• Ensure data platforms meet requirements for performance, reliability, security, monitoring, automation, and availability.
• Provide technical leadership to data engineering teams and guide implementation of enterprise data solutions.
• Support event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and modern data integration patterns.
• Drive engineering best practices across Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platforms, tools, and architecture improvements to modernize the enterprise data ecosystem.
• Collaborate with AI/ML and analytics teams to enable data consumption for advanced analytics and AI use cases.

Skills

10+ years experience

Data architecture

Enterprise data

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Talend

dbt

Python

SQL Databases

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora

DynamoDB

Job description

Function Cloud & Data Engineering

Our Company We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration. Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job Title: Senior Data Architect / Enterprise Data Architect

Meet Our Team

Join our Data & Analytics organization, where we design and modernize enterprise-scale data platforms that power business intelligence, advanced analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise reporting. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, solution architects, data engineers, and AI/ML teams to establish scalable data architectures and modern cloud-based data ecosystems. The team focuses on building secure, reliable, high-performance data platforms using modern cloud, Lakehouse, streaming, and data engineering technologies.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Architect scalable cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions.
• Lead architecture and implementation of ETL/ELT, batch processing, streaming, and real-time data integration solutions.
• Design enterprise data solutions supporting BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting initiatives.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Establish architecture patterns and standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, integration, and consumption.
• Design distributed, scalable, highly available, and high-performance data architectures.
• Ensure data platforms meet requirements for performance, reliability, security, monitoring, automation, and availability.
• Provide technical leadership to data engineering teams and guide implementation of enterprise data solutions.
• Support event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and modern data integration patterns.
• Drive engineering best practices across Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platforms, tools, and architecture improvements to modernize the enterprise data ecosystem.
• Collaborate with AI/ML and analytics teams to enable data consumption for advanced analytics and AI use cases.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• Experience 10+ years of experience across data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development.
• 5+ years leading data engineering initiatives and delivering enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Proven experience designing and owning enterprise data architecture, not just developing individual pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.

Core Data Architecture

• Strong expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
• Deep knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, Data Lakes, and Lakehouse architectures.
• Experience designing distributed, scalable, high-performance data platforms.
• Strong understanding of batch, streaming, and event-driven data processing.

Cloud & Data Platforms

• Strong experience with AWS.
• Experience with AWS data services including S3, EMR, Glue, and Redshift.
• Strong experience with Snowflake or comparable modern cloud data platforms.

Data Engineering

• Hands-on/architecture experience with: Spark | Kafka | Airflow | Talend | dbt | Python | SQL Databases
• Experience across relational and NoSQL platforms such as: SQL Server | PostgreSQL | Amazon Aurora | DynamoDB

Architecture & Integration

• Strong understanding of: Data Lake/Lakehouse | Event-Driven Architecture | Microservices | REST APIs | Data Modeling

DevOps

• Experience with: Kubernetes | Docker | Git | CI/CD | Infrastructure as Code
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps, automation, monitoring, and operational best practices is expected.

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About us

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

Hitachi brings together the world’s greatest minds to help breathe life into new possibilities – and drive innovation for a better future. That’s why we look for individuals who share our pioneering spirit, have imaginative ideas and are fearless when it comes to tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Our people love technology – and they love making a difference. They have a passion for finding new solutions and working with brilliant colleagues. Every day they dedicate themselves to a huge range of exciting projects, contributing to the Hitachi vision around the globe. From engineering new sustainability solutions that conserve water and energy to creating the infrastructure for the smart cities of tomorrow, there’s no challenge too great for our pioneers. And there’s no shortage of opportunities for you to make a difference. Come and experience the dynamic, collaborative and creative environments where your ideas are welcome and new discoveries are waiting. To help you grow to your full potential, we strive to support our employees in their career aspirations and promote the freedom to explore new horizons. E-mail us for data privacy inquiries or technical support.