Enterprise Data Architect for AI-Scale & Data Mesh

Incedo Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Incedo Inc. in Dallas seeks a seasoned Data Architect to define and govern the end-to-end architecture of enterprise data products and platforms. This role emphasizes scalable, reusable, and compliant designs across on-prem and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with Data Managers, Platform teams, and Engineering leads to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and modernization goals. Hands-on work is selective to establish reference patterns.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics architecture.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data products and platforms.
• Strong expertise in data modeling, lakehouse architectures, and streaming systems.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for data solutions from source systems through analytics and downstream consumption.
• Design and govern logical, physical, and semantic data models (facts, dimensions, metrics, hierarchies).
• Apply domain-driven and data-solutions design principles to ensure consistency and reusability.
• Establish and govern data contracts and domain interfaces.
• Define architectural patterns across Hadoop, lakehouse, and streaming platforms.
• Guide batch, near-real-time, and event-driven designs using Spark and Kafka.
• Ensure alignment across on-prem and cloud-based platforms in a hybrid enterprise environment.
• Review and guide ingestion and data service designs built on Java/Spring Boot and Python.
• Apply graph modeling patterns where relationship-centric use cases require it.

Skills

Data modeling

Lakehouse architectures

Streaming systems

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

ELK

Job description

Incedo Inc. in Dallas seeks a seasoned Data Architect to define and govern the end-to-end architecture of enterprise data products and platforms. This role emphasizes scalable, reusable, and compliant designs across on-prem and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with Data Managers, Platform teams, and Engineering leads to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and modernization goals. Hands-on work is selective to establish reference patterns.