Data Architect-68464

Hitachi Digital Services; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services is seeking a Senior Data Architect / Enterprise Data Architect to design and modernize enterprise-scale data platforms. You will collaborate with stakeholders and architects to create scalable data ecosystems using cloud, lakehouse, streaming, and data engineering technologies.

Responsibilities include defining data models, building data warehouses and lakes, leading ETL/ELT efforts, and guiding data solutions for BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting.

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 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 cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions.
• Lead ETL/ELT, batch processing, streaming, and real-time data integration initiatives.
• Design enterprise data solutions for BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable architectures.
• Establish patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, and consumption.
• Develop distributed, scalable, high-performance data architectures with reliability.
• Ensure performance, security, monitoring, and automation of data platforms.
• Provide technical leadership to data engineering teams and guide implementations.
• Support event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and modern integration patterns.
• Drive DevOps practices: Agile, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and IaC.

Skills

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Talend

dbt

Python

SQL

AWS

Snowflake

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

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 description

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.