Head of Data Solutions & Platform Architecture

Bridgenext, Inc.; Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco (Philadelphia County, MA, GA, CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgenext in the United States is seeking an Engineering Director to be a Data Solutions Architect. The role combines hands-on architecture with leadership, partnering with sales, consulting, and delivery to design scalable data ecosystems.

You will lead modern data platform design across Azure, AWS, and GCP, drive governance, security, and data governance, and mentor engineers while shaping offerings within the Global Data Practice. Travel up to 50% nationwide.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or related roles.
• 5+ years as a Solution/Data Architect.
• Proven enterprise-scale data architecture experience.
• Strong knowledge of cloud design patterns and distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with modern data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience delivering 2–3+ enterprise Data Lake/Lakehouse implementations.
• Excellent client-facing communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience in Agile and DevOps environments.
• Strong programming skills: SQL, Python, PySpark, Scala.
• Hands-on tuning of Spark and distributed workloads.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise data architecture vision.
• Design end-to-end data ecosystems across ingestion to consumption.
• Lead architecture-driven pre-sales efforts and solution design.
• Guide engineering teams on best practices for data pipelines and platforms.
• Ensure data governance, metadata, lineage, and quality frameworks.
• Mentor and coach data engineers and architects.
• Collaborate across consulting, delivery, and client teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Solution architecture

Databricks

Lakehouse

Cloud platforms

SQL, Python, Scala

Security & governance

Pre-sales support

Leadership

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Purview

Unity Catalog

Notebooks

Job description

Bridgenext in the United States is seeking an Engineering Director to be a Data Solutions Architect. The role combines hands-on architecture with leadership, partnering with sales, consulting, and delivery to design scalable data ecosystems.

You will lead modern data platform design across Azure, AWS, and GCP, drive governance, security, and data governance, and mentor engineers while shaping offerings within the Global Data Practice. Travel up to 50% nationwide.