Data Platform Architect – Hybrid Milwaukee (Contract-to-Hire)

Bayforce; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayforce seeks a Data Architect in the Milwaukee area to guide enterprise data strategy and select core technologies. The role collaborates with enterprise architecture, data engineering, and business leaders to build a scalable data platform aligned with analytics, maintenance, and AI goals.

The position is a six-month contract-to-hire with hybrid onsite requirements in Northern Milwaukee. The ideal candidate demonstrates strategic thinking and deep technical credibility to translate business

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise data-architecture experience.
• Hands-on with Snowflake and Databricks on Azure.
• Experience evaluating data technologies and recommending platforms.
• Design cloud-based data platforms and enterprise integration strategies.
• Knowledge of data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, APIs, ETL/ELT, and data integration.
• Experience with streaming or event-driven data architectures.
• Ability to translate business needs into a practical data roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate Snowflake, Databricks, and Azure services to shape future data-platform strategy.
• Assess capabilities, costs, scalability, and long-term fit for the platform.
• Evaluate streaming tech, data catalogs, data-quality tools, and architecture components.
• Define integration with ERP, cloud, analytics, and applications.
• Partner with enterprise architecture to define future-state architecture and roadmap.
• Design scalable patterns for ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption.
• Establish standards for data quality, governance, lineage, and security.
• Support predictive maintenance, analytics, and real-time decision-making.
• Lay the foundation for AI and machine-learning capabilities.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

Python

PySpark

SQL

Kafka

Power BI

Job description

Bayforce seeks a Data Architect in the Milwaukee area to guide enterprise data strategy and select core technologies. The role collaborates with enterprise architecture, data engineering, and business leaders to build a scalable data platform aligned with analytics, maintenance, and AI goals.

The position is a six-month contract-to-hire with hybrid onsite requirements in Northern Milwaukee. The ideal candidate demonstrates strategic thinking and deep technical credibility to translate business