Lead Cloud Data Architect for Scalable AI Platform

Delta Dental of California; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 93,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

401(k) matching

Medical benefits

Dental & vision benefits

Paid holidays & PTO

Career development

Job summary

Delta Dental of California seeks a Senior Data Architect to design scalable, cloud-native data solutions. You will translate business needs into secure, high-performing architectures and partner with IT leadership to enable capabilities across the data platform.

The role emphasizes governance, multi-cloud patterns, data sharing, and collaboration with Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, and business teams to drive innovation and scalable analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience designing enterprise data architectures and data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud data technologies and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of end-to-end data solutions across platforms.
• Define target-state data architectures, data flows, and storage strategies.
• Govern data ingestion, transformation, sharing, and interoperability across domains.
• Architect scalable data pipelines with a focus on performance, cost, and reliability.
• Enable AI/ML through data architectures supporting feature engineering and deployment.
• Ensure data governance, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance by design.

Skills

Cloud data architecture

Data governance

Stakeholder management

ETL/ELT patterns

Data platform design

AI/ML enablement

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Snowflake

Matillion

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Delta Dental of California seeks a Senior Data Architect to design scalable, cloud-native data solutions. You will translate business needs into secure, high-performing architectures and partner with IT leadership to enable capabilities across the data platform.

The role emphasizes governance, multi-cloud patterns, data sharing, and collaboration with Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, and business teams to drive innovation and scalable analytics.