Remote Enterprise Data Architect: Platform & Governance

Bright Vision Technologies; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Enterprise Data 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 and sets standards for data modeling and lifecycle management, collaborating with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders.

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 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 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 target-state architecture of the enterprise data platform including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers.
• Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, partitioning, and storage organization.
• Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns using Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines balancing latency, cost, and reliability across batch and streaming workloads.
• Lead integration of governance, lineage, and catalog tools (Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Unity Catalog, DataHub).
• Define security architecture including row- and column-level controls, masking, and identity-aware access patterns.
• Partner with ML, BI, and product teams to align platform capabilities with downstream needs.
• Establish data contracts and data product principles for ownership and quality.
• Lead architecture reviews and guide pipeline and warehouse design proposals across teams.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning for the data platform estate.
• Design disaster recovery, multi-region, high-availability strategies for critical data assets.
• Mentor data engineers and architects on platform standards and best practices.
• Produce architecture artifacts like context diagrams and reference patterns.
• Stay current with data platform research and vendor/open-source developments.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Data modeling

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Collibra

Alation

Unity Catalog

DataHub

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Enterprise Data 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 and sets standards for data modeling and lifecycle management, collaborating with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders.