Remote Data Architect — Cloud, Governance & Data Platform Leader

Zensar Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zensar Technologies is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design and govern our enterprise data platform from remote USA locations. You will define target data architecture, lead data modelling, integration, and governance, and collaborate with engineering, analytics, and business teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

You will design end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers, and lead cloud platform decisions to

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or architecture, with 3+ years in a Data Architect role.
• Deep expertise in a cloud data platform such as Snowflake, GCP, Databricks, or Azure/AWS data services.
• Strong data modelling skills (dimensional, 3NF, data vault) and advanced SQL.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT and orchestration tools (DBT, Fivetran, Airflow, Informatica, Control-M, or similar) and streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• Experience with data governance, MDM, data quality, and metadata or catalog tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and own end-to-end data architecture for ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers (lakehouse and data warehouse).
• Build conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Architect batch and near-real-time pipelines using ELT/ETL and streaming tools.
• Set data governance, data quality, lineage, metadata, and security standards.
• Lead cloud data platform decisions and optimize performance and cost.
• Partner with data engineers, BI and analytics teams, and AI/ML teams to make data AI-ready.
• Document architecture decisions, standards, and reference patterns.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

SQL

ETL/ELT

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Tools

DBT

Fivetran

Airflow

Informatica

Control-M

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Zensar Technologies is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design and govern our enterprise data platform from remote USA locations. You will define target data architecture, lead data modelling, integration, and governance, and collaborate with engineering, analytics, and business teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

You will design end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption layers, and lead cloud platform decisions to