Remote Data Platform Architect for AI/ML & Analytics

Proarch It Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ProArch is seeking a Data Platform Architect to lead the enterprise data platform strategy, design, and governance. The role requires hands-on architectural leadership across cloud platforms, data warehousing, and AI/ML enablement, collaborating with data engineering, analytics, security, and product teams.

The candidate will define standards, reference architectures, and patterns, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-efficient data platforms that align with business strategy and compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Data Science or related field or equivalent
• 7+ years in database engineering with 3+ years in database architecture design
• Masters degree preferred in IT/Data Science/CS
• Familiarity with healthcare payer data domains is a plus
• Experience designing API-based data integration using Apigee
• Integration with enterprise systems like Salesforce, FACETS, ServiceNow

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise data platform strategy with architecture standards and reference designs
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, and decision records
• Evaluate data platforms and ETL/ELT tools balancing scalability, security, cost
• Review designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and best practices
• Provide technical leadership to data engineering and analytics teams
• Define guardrails for scalable, high-availability data platforms
• Establish standards for operations, reliability, observability, and deployment
• Ensure security, privacy, and regulatory compliance by default
• Standardize ETL/ELT/data integration patterns for analytics and AI/ML use cases
• Participate in enterprise governance forums and cost optimization efforts
• Drive innovation in AI-powered data engineering workflows
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Cloud data architectures

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Security controls

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's in IT/CS/Data Science

Master's in IT/Data Science

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

Google Cloud

Azure Data Lake/ADLS

Fabric

Databricks

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Apigee

Job description

ProArch is seeking a Data Platform Architect to lead the enterprise data platform strategy, design, and governance. The role requires hands-on architectural leadership across cloud platforms, data warehousing, and AI/ML enablement, collaborating with data engineering, analytics, security, and product teams.

The candidate will define standards, reference architectures, and patterns, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-efficient data platforms that align with business strategy and compliance