Remote Data Platform Architect - Lakehouse & Governance

Bright Vision Technologies; Port Reading (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 enterprise data platform architecture across ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers. This role partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable data foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery with architectural judgment, has led data-platform programs of meaningful scope and can drive standards, security, and cost

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data engineering with significant architecture exposure.
• Deep expertise across two major data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, 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 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 target-state architecture for the enterprise data platform.
• Establish standards for data modeling, partitioning, and storage.
• Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines balancing latency and cost.
• Lead governance, lineage, and catalog tool integration.
• Define security architecture with fine-grained access controls.
• Partner with ML, BI, and product teams for platform alignment.
• Establish data contracts and data product principles.
• Lead architecture reviews across teams.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning.
• Design disaster recovery, multi-region, and HA strategies.
• Mentor engineers and architects on standards.
• Produce architecture artifacts and reference patterns.
• Stay current with data platform research and vendors.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or 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 enterprise data platform architecture across ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers. This role partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable data foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery with architectural judgment, has led data-platform programs of meaningful scope and can drive standards, security, and cost