Hybrid Data Platform Architect for Enterprise Analytics

Dominion Energy; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with company match

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Bonus eligibility

Disability insurance

Job summary

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

This role partners with enterprise architecture, data engineers, platform teams, cybersecurity, and infrastructure to deliver scalable, secure, resilient data capabilities that enable enterprise analytics, data products, AI, and operational decision-making.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define and execute architecture roadmaps for enterprise data platforms by closely partnering with enterprise architecture team.
• Lead modernization initiatives that 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 initiatives and improve long-term maintainability.
• Design architecture patterns that accelerate delivery of trusted data products.
• Define reusable ingestion, transformation, virtualization, and consumption frameworks.
• Partner with data engineering and business teams to reduce time-to-value for analytics initiatives.
• Enable scalable self-service analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Establish architecture standards that support AI, advanced analytics, and enterprise reporting.
• Architect resilient, highly available, and observable data platforms.
• Define enterprise standards for RBAC, ABAC, encryption, masking, and data protection.
• Establish platform monitoring, observability, operational health, and performance frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews and design assessments.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable patterns.
• Influence technology decisions across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Provide architectural guidance during major project planning and implementation.
• Maintain architecture decision records and technology standards.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and delivery teams.

Skills

Data platforms architecture

Architecture leadership

Enterprise-scale data platforms

Cross-functional modernization

Strategic technology influence

Education

Bachelor

Tools

Snowflake

Oracle Exadata

Denodo

Talend

dbt

Microsoft Azure

Informatica Data Catalog

Data governance

Data observability

CI/CD / DevOps

RBAC

ABAC

Encryption

Data masking

Job description

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

This role partners with enterprise architecture, data engineers, platform teams, cybersecurity, and infrastructure to deliver scalable, secure, resilient data capabilities that enable enterprise analytics, data products, AI, and operational decision-making.