Remote Enterprise Data Platform Architect

TrulyHired; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

401(k) with company match

Health, dental, vision coverage

Employee stock purchase plan

Generous paid time off and tuition Re‑

Job summary

Frontline Education seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and evolve the architecture behind a scalable Data Platform, AI capabilities, and reusable services. You will collaborate with Product, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver secure, observable data products that power analytics and AI-enabled experiences.

You will lead pattern development for data ingestion, governance, and interoperation with cloud-native SaaS platforms, guiding teams toward durable platform investments and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering with distributed systems and architectures.
• Experience designing cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platforms and data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, streaming, APIs, and data contracts.
• Experience with AWS, Kafka, and modern data tooling for analytics and AI.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for Frontline’s enterprise Data Platform, analytics, and AI capabilities.
• Establish reusable patterns for data ingestion, storage, and data exchange across products.
• Partner with product management to shape roadmaps and determine build-vs-buy decisions.
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineers and leads.
• Ensure reliability, observability, security, and governance across data platforms.

Skills

System architecture

Strategic leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

Amazon Redshift

Apache Iceberg

Delta Lake

dbt

Airflow

OpenSearch

DataHub

OpenMetadata

OpenLineage

OpenTelemetry

REST APIs

GraphQL

Job description

Frontline Education seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and evolve the architecture behind a scalable Data Platform, AI capabilities, and reusable services. You will collaborate with Product, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver secure, observable data products that power analytics and AI-enabled experiences.

You will lead pattern development for data ingestion, governance, and interoperation with cloud-native SaaS platforms, guiding teams toward durable platform investments and