Remote Data Platform Architect – Enterprise Lakehouse

Bright Vision Technologies; Edison (NJ); Remote; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Data Platform 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, partnering with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep data platform expertise with architectural judgment and has led programs of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise across 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 the target-state architecture of the enterprise data platform, including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers.
• Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, partitioning, file formats, and storage organization.
• Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns leveraging Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines balancing latency, cost, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead governance, lineage, and catalog tool integration (Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Unity Catalog, DataHub).
• Define security architecture including row- and column-level controls, masking, encryption, and identity-aware access patterns.
• Partner with ML, BI, and product teams to align platform capabilities with downstream needs.
• Establish data contract and data product principles to drive ownership and quality.
• Lead architecture reviews and guide pipeline/warehouse designs across teams.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning across the data platform estate.

Skills

Data architecture

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Data Platform 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, partnering with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep data platform expertise with architectural judgment and has led programs of