Data Solutions Architecture Director (Remote)

UNAVAILABLE; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgenext is seeking an experienced Engineering Director to lead data solutions architecture across cloud platforms, data lakes and lakehouse ecosystems. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to design scalable data architectures that align with client goals.

You will partner with sales, consulting, and delivery teams to drive architecture-driven pre-sales, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps while mentoring data engineers and architects on modern

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or related roles, including 5+ years as a Solution/Data Architect.
• Proven experience defining and delivering enterprise-scale data architecture strategies.
• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks, cloud design patterns, and distributed systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise across modern data platforms including Azure, AWS and GCP (and related services).
• Strong experience with Databricks including Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Spark optimization.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric including OneLake, Dataflows, Lakehouse, Notebooks, Semantic Models.
• Proven delivery of 2–3+ enterprise Data Lake/Lakehouse implementations.
• Expertise in ETL/ELT pipelines, batch and streaming architectures.
• Strong programming skills: SQL, Python, PySpark, Scala.
• Hands-on experience tuning Spark and distributed workloads.
• Strong understanding of IAM, RBAC, encryption, and secure data architectures.
• Experience with governance tools such as Azure Purview, AWS Glue Catalog, Unity Catalog.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for data pipelines, APIs, analytics platforms, and AI/ML-ready data foundations.
• Guide engineering teams on best practices across data engineering, integration, and platform optimization.
• Ensure implementation of data governance, metadata, lineage, and quality frameworks across solutions.
• Provide hands-on oversight in critical builds and escalations, demonstrating strong field-level technical depth.
• Lead architecture-driven pre-sales efforts, including proposals and PoCs.
• Translate complex business needs into architectural blueprints, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Lead technical discussions with clients as a trusted advisor.

Skills

Databricks

Lakehouse

Delta Lake

MLflow

Unity Catalog

Spark tuning

Python

SQL

Security & RBAC

Cloud platforms

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kafka

Kinesis

Event Hub

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Purview

Spark

Job description

Bridgenext is seeking an experienced Engineering Director to lead data solutions architecture across cloud platforms, data lakes and lakehouse ecosystems. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to design scalable data architectures that align with client goals.

You will partner with sales, consulting, and delivery teams to drive architecture-driven pre-sales, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps while mentoring data engineers and architects on modern