Hybrid Data Platform Architect & Analytics Leader

Socket.dev; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

401k with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Dominion Energy is seeking a Solution Architect, Data Platforms to lead the architecture, modernization, governance, security, and evolution of our enterprise data platform ecosystem.

This role acts as a technical leader, defining strategy, setting engineering standards, and guiding delivery teams to enable analytics, data products, AI, and operational decision-making across the organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data, analytics, data engineering, or platform architecture.
• 5+ years in architecture leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Led cross-functional modernization and transformation initiatives.
• Influenced strategic technology decisions without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute architecture roadmaps for enterprise data platforms.
• Lead modernization initiatives to simplify legacy environments and improve platform agility.
• Establish future-state architectures for cloud, hybrid, and virtualized data ecosystems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic platform investments.
• Drive technical debt reduction and improve long-term maintainability.
• Design architecture patterns to accelerate delivery of trusted data products.
• Enable scalable self-service analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, risk, and governance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews and create reusable patterns and reference architectures.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads; influence senior stakeholders.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Enterprise data strategy

Executive communication

Cross-functional influence

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor

Tools

Snowflake

Oracle Exadata

Denodo

Talend/dbt

Microsoft Azure

Informatica Data Catalog

Data Governance frameworks

Monte Carlo / Data Observability

Data security architectures (RBAC/ABAC/Encryption/Masking)

CI/CD and DevOps practices

Job description

Dominion Energy is seeking a Solution Architect, Data Platforms to lead the architecture, modernization, governance, security, and evolution of our enterprise data platform ecosystem.

This role acts as a technical leader, defining strategy, setting engineering standards, and guiding delivery teams to enable analytics, data products, AI, and operational decision-making across the organization.