Lead Data Platform Architect

PowerToFly; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 136,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

PowerToFly seeks a Principal Architect, Data Product Delivery to lead the design of scalable, secure data and analytics solutions across programs and domains. You will partner with engineering, product, governance, security, and platform teams to translate strategy into roadmaps and reusable implementation patterns.

You will mentor engineers, define patterns, and drive architecture decisions while embedding privacy, governance, and compliance in delivery across enterprise data platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 8+ years in data engineering or architecture.
• Experience architecting large-scale enterprise data platforms and integration.
• Hands-on with cloud data platforms and modern data architecture patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture direction, standards, and reusable components for data lifecycle.
• Own diagrams, designs, data models, and architecture decisions for data vertical.
• Develop proofs of concept and reusable patterns to accelerate delivery.
• Mentor engineers and translate strategy into technical roadmaps.

Skills

Data engineering

Solution architecture

Technical design

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Azure Data Services

SQL

Python

Delta Lake

Kafka

Job description

PowerToFly seeks a Principal Architect, Data Product Delivery to lead the design of scalable, secure data and analytics solutions across programs and domains. You will partner with engineering, product, governance, security, and platform teams to translate strategy into roadmaps and reusable implementation patterns.

You will mentor engineers, define patterns, and drive architecture decisions while embedding privacy, governance, and compliance in delivery across enterprise data platforms.