Lakehouse Data Architect: Iceberg & Object Storage Lead

EXL; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise data platforms built on object storage and Apache Iceberg. You will architect migrations from traditional relational and analytic databases into modern lakehouse environments and craft scalable ingestion for batch, streaming, and near real-time data loads.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Iceberg expertise, data modeling, metadata management, and a strong background in security and governance across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of Data Architecture/Engineering experience.
• Hands-on Iceberg experience in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of data platforms using Object Storage and Iceberg.
• Develop migration plans from relational databases and Hadoop into Iceberg-based lakehouses.
• Design scalable ingestion for batch, streaming, and near real-time loads.
• Understand Iceberg catalogs, namespaces, partitioning, and schema evolution.
• Establish security, metadata, retention, and compliance best practices.
• Collaborate with data engineers, DBAs, and platform teams on migrations.
• Optimize Bronze/Silver/Gold data layers for lakehouse architectures.
• Evaluate data access and performance across Spark, Trino, Databricks, Snowflake, and more.
• Transition legacy ETL workloads to modern data engineering frameworks.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Iceberg

Object storage

Migration strategies

Metadata management

Data modeling

ETL architectures

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Spark

Trino

Databricks

Snowflake

Postgres

Hadoop

Teradata

Job description

EXL is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise data platforms built on object storage and Apache Iceberg. You will architect migrations from traditional relational and analytic databases into modern lakehouse environments and craft scalable ingestion for batch, streaming, and near real-time data loads.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Iceberg expertise, data modeling, metadata management, and a strong background in security and governance across