Remote Enterprise Data Architect — Lead Platform Strategy

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies, a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States, seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform.

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or 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 data modeling expertise across dimensional, normalized, and data‑vault patterns.
• Experience implementing governance, lineage, and catalog capabilities.

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 technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines that balance latency, cost, reliability, and maintainability across batch and streaming workloads.
• Lead the integration of governance, lineage, and catalog tools such as Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Unity Catalog, or 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 ensure platform capabilities align with downstream consumption needs.
• Establish data contract and data product principles to drive ownership, quality, and decoupling between producers and consumers.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on pipeline and warehouse design proposals across teams.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning across the data platform estate.
• Design disaster recovery, multi‑region, and high‑availability strategies for critical data assets.
• Mentor data engineers and architects on platform standards and emerging best practices.
• Produce architecture artifacts including context diagrams, decision records, and reference patterns.
• Stay current with data platform research, vendor offerings, and open‑source ecosystem developments.

Skills

Data architecture

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies, a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States, seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform.

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