Data Platform Architect – Hybrid & Cloud Migrations

Newton; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & pharmacy coverage

Dental/vision insurance

401(k)

HSA & FSA

Life Insurance

Pet Insurance

Disability coverage

Sick time & paid leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Innova Solutions in Jersey City, NJ seeks an experienced Data Platform Architect to lead enterprise data modernization blending on-prem and cloud-native solutions. You will define the target-state data platform strategy and oversee multi-team collaboration across engineering and security to enable scalable, secure data workflows.

The role requires senior expertise in cloud migrations, distributed systems, and data governance, with a focus on delivering large-scale transformations for regulated

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data platform architecture or distributed systems.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale cloud migration initiatives with large data.
• Strong experience with Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, or similar messaging systems.
• Proficiency in AWS cloud services.
• Experience with data warehouses or lakehouse platforms.
• Experience migrating data from Vertica, Hadoop, Teradata, Oracle, Snowflake, or similar tech.
• Strong software engineering background in Java, Python, SQL, and OO languages.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of data governance, security, and monitoring.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture for enterprise data platforms and cloud analytics.
• Lead migration of large-scale data environments to the cloud.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure data architectures for petabyte-scale workloads.
• Establish governance, standards, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with infra, security, and applications teams on cloud strategies.
• Evaluate technologies for storage, processing, streaming, governance, and observability.
• Provide technical leadership for Spark, Kafka, Databricks, and cloud-native services.
• Drive performance, cost management, and operational excellence.
• Support executives with migration roadmaps and modernization plans.

Skills

Data Platform Architecture

Cloud Migration

Java

Python

SQL

Distributed Systems

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

AWS

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Databricks

Hadoop

Teradata

Snowflake

AMPS

Job description

Innova Solutions in Jersey City, NJ seeks an experienced Data Platform Architect to lead enterprise data modernization blending on-prem and cloud-native solutions. You will define the target-state data platform strategy and oversee multi-team collaboration across engineering and security to enable scalable, secure data workflows.

The role requires senior expertise in cloud migrations, distributed systems, and data governance, with a focus on delivering large-scale transformations for regulated