Remote Cloud Data Architect - Lead Data Platform

Bright Vision Technologies; Chesterfield (MO); Remote; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform, spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers. You will set standards for data modeling and lifecycle management and collaborate with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable data foundation.

The ideal candidate has eight or more years in data engineering with architecture leadership and hands-on

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience in data engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise across at least two major data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Strong understanding of lakehouse architectures, modern table formats, and streaming systems.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, or Kafka at production scale.
• Strong data modeling expertise across dimensional, normalized, and data-vault patterns.
• Experience implementing governance, lineage, and catalog capabilities.
• Solid grasp of cloud platforms, networking, identity, and cost optimization.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Track record of leading large data platform initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the architecture of the enterprise data platform, covering ingestion, storage, processing, governance and consumption layers.
• Set standards for data modeling and lifecycle management and align with business stakeholders to ensure a scalable data foundation.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, ML, and product teams to drive data platform programs.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

Stakeholder management

Spark/Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Tools

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform, spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers. You will set standards for data modeling and lifecycle management and collaborate with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable data foundation.

The ideal candidate has eight or more years in data engineering with architecture leadership and hands-on