Remote Data Platform Architect - Scale Data & Governance

Bright Vision Technologies; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Data Platform Architect to design and lead our enterprise data platform, covering ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and data consumption. This role drives the strategic direction, sets modeling standards, and collaborates with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business teams to deliver a coherent data foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of modern data platforms with strong architectural judgment and prior leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/IS or related field.
• 8+ years in data engineering with 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 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 and lead the architecture of the enterprise data platform (ingestion to consumption).
• Set standards for data modeling, lifecycle management, and governance.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data foundation.
• Provide architectural judgment and leadership for data-platform initiatives across teams.

Skills

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Lakehouse

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Data modeling

Governance

Education

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

Tools

dbt

LookML

Cube

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Data Platform Architect to design and lead our enterprise data platform, covering ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and data consumption. This role drives the strategic direction, sets modeling standards, and collaborates with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business teams to deliver a coherent data foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of modern data platforms with strong architectural judgment and prior leadership