Hybrid Data Architect • Lead Cloud Lakehouse & POCs

ReliaStaff Solutions LLC; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

ReliaStaff Solutions LLC is seeking a Principal Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of modern data platforms for healthcare clients. The role blends architecture, hands-on engineering, and customer consulting, translating business needs into scalable data solutions while guiding implementation, PoCs, and troubleshooting.

You will drive governance, security practices, and provide technical leadership across delivery teams, including mentoring engineers and presenting recommendations to

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of software engineering or data platforms experience with 5+ years architecting on GCP and/or Databricks.
• Strong understanding of lakehouse, data product, and medallion architecture patterns.
• Experience designing scalable batch and streaming data systems.
• Knowledge of data modeling, storage optimization, and analytical performance tuning.
• Experience implementing metadata management, lineage, data quality, governance, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery sessions to understand business objectives, platforms, and requirements.
• Develop architectural blueprints, explain tradeoffs, and create implementation roadmaps.
• Design GCP lakehouse architectures using BigQuery, Cloud Storage, BigLake, and Dataplex.
• Architect real-time and batch ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, and orchestration with Airflow and Pub/Sub.
• Define data models and optimize storage, partitioning, and analytical workloads.
• Establish practices for cataloging, metadata, lineage, data quality, security, and access control.
• Align architecture with enterprise governance and regulatory requirements.
• Build proofs of concept and resolve complex issues in production.
• Lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and guide technical delivery.
• Serve as a trusted client advisor, presenting recommendations clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

GCP & Databricks architecture

Lakehouse patterns

Batch & streaming data

Data modeling

Governance & security

Leadership & mentoring

Client-facing communication

Tools

Dataplex

Data Catalog

IAM

Job description

ReliaStaff Solutions LLC is seeking a Principal Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of modern data platforms for healthcare clients. The role blends architecture, hands-on engineering, and customer consulting, translating business needs into scalable data solutions while guiding implementation, PoCs, and troubleshooting.

You will drive governance, security practices, and provide technical leadership across delivery teams, including mentoring engineers and presenting recommendations to