Lead Data Platform Architect — Unified Data Foundation

Clark Group; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Clark Group seeks a Senior Data Platform Architect to lead the enterprise data infrastructure from our McLean, VA office. You will architect a unified data foundation using Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, and Microsoft Fabric, aligning data from financial, IoT and construction processes for 5,000+ users.

You will guide data governance, cataloging, and platform modernization, driving security, scalability and availability while enabling AI and analytics initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in data engineering, enterprise integration, or platform architecture.
• Hybrid environment experience leveraging Snowflake or Databricks for cloud data warehousing, AWS Infrastructure, and Microsoft Fabric (OneLake) for unified data mesh.
• Proficiency with API integration patterns and scripting (e.g., Python, Lambda, SQL).
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Data Lakehouse technologies like Snowflake, Databricks and ELT/ETL tools (Mulesoft, Talend, Matillion, Informatica Cloud).
• Ability to lead upgrades or migrations independently.
• Proven track record of building platforms supporting 1,000+ users.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: act as senior technical lead for the platform, setting standards for architecture, management, data movement, storage and security.
• Foundational Data Modeling: design the Unified Core data and connectors to create a single source of truth.
• Complex Data Integration: architect and maintain mission-critical data flows between enterprise systems for self-serve analytics.
• Cross-platform Governance: implement governance and security with zero-copy sharing across data storage and lakehouse ecosystems.
• Data Governance and Catalog: establish and scale a metadata-rich data catalog with clear stewardship roles.
• System Stability & Scalability: drive upgrades, performance tuning, and 24/7 production resilience.
• Collaboration: partner with business teams to support advanced visualization and ML deployments.

Skills

Data platform architecture

Technical leadership

Data governance

Cloud data warehousing

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

Microsoft Fabric (OneLake)

Talend

Matillion

Mulesoft

Informatica Cloud

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Azure Synapse

Job description

Clark Group seeks a Senior Data Platform Architect to lead the enterprise data infrastructure from our McLean, VA office. You will architect a unified data foundation using Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, and Microsoft Fabric, aligning data from financial, IoT and construction processes for 5,000+ users.

You will guide data governance, cataloging, and platform modernization, driving security, scalability and availability while enabling AI and analytics initiatives across the organization.