Remote Data Architecture Lead: Enterprise Platform Roadmap

KData AI; United States; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

KData AI is seeking an experienced Data Architect to serve as Technical Lead on a data modernization engagement for a large national not-for-profit. You will guide the current-state assessment, design the target-state architecture, and deliver a practical, phased roadmap to implementation.

You will provide technical direction to an embedded data engineer, work with business analysts to define the first data product, and help the client adopt governance, security, and cataloging capabilities for

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, data platforms, or analytics.
• 4+ years in a data architecture or technical lead role.
• Experience assessing enterprise data platforms and designing roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of lakehouse, data warehouse, medallion, data mesh or data product approaches.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Databricks across the Azure Databricks stack.

Responsibilities

• Review the existing Enterprise Data Platform architecture and assess governance, security, metadata, and operations.
• Plan and lead stakeholder interviews and workshops with technology, architecture, data and analytics teams.
• Define the future-state architecture and formulate a phased implementation roadmap.
• Partner with business analysts to identify candidate business use cases and translate them into technical requirements.
• Provide technical oversight to the embedded data engineer and ensure alignment with the target-state architecture.
• Present findings and recommendations to technical teams and senior leadership.

Skills

Data architecture

Technical leadership

Stakeholder workshops

Azure Databricks stack

Data governance

Tools

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Factory

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Databricks workflows

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Alation

Job description

KData AI is seeking an experienced Data Architect to serve as Technical Lead on a data modernization engagement for a large national not-for-profit. You will guide the current-state assessment, design the target-state architecture, and deliver a practical, phased roadmap to implementation.

You will provide technical direction to an embedded data engineer, work with business analysts to define the first data product, and help the client adopt governance, security, and cataloging capabilities for