Remote Data Platform Architect: Scale Data Infrastructure

Bright Vision Technologies; Farmington Hills (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; 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.

The role drives the strategic direction of data infrastructure, sets standards for data modeling and lifecycle management, and partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a coherent, scalable data foundation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of experience in data engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise across at least two major data platforms such as 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 and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform.
• Set standards for data modeling and lifecycle management.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a coherent, scalable data foundation.
• Lead data-platform programs of meaningful scope and complexity.

Skills

Data platform architecture

Lakehouse architectures

Streaming systems

Spark/Flink/Kafka

Data modeling

Governance/ Catalog

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Leadership in programs

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/IS

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

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.

The role drives the strategic direction of data infrastructure, sets standards for data modeling and lifecycle management, and partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a coherent, scalable data foundation.