Remote Senior Solutions Architect - Airflow & Data Platform

Astronomer; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Astronomer is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead delivery architecture for customer engagements, combining solution design with hands‑on work to operationalize Airflow and Astro at scale.

You will design end‑to‑end platform architectures, guide deployments, migrations, and platform modernization, and build reusable tools and reference architectures to raise delivery quality across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture.
• Airflow expertise authoring and deploying Dags to production, monitoring execution, and troubleshooting failures.
• Experience tuning Airflow performance, refactoring Dag code, right-sizing infrastructure, and implementing data quality checks and alerts.
• Proven track record of guiding customers through platform deployments, migrations, or technical transformations, managing scope, timelines, and stakeholder conflicts.
• Strong background in designing cloud native data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, with familiarity in enterprise networking, security, and identity patterns.
• Programming experience in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Track record leading architecture discussions and driving technical decisions with engineering leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Strong communication and documentation skills; can translate business requirements into scalable, production‑ready architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture reviews, workshops, and technical design sessions with engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Design end‑to‑end platform architectures integrating Airflow with cloud infrastructure, compute frameworks, and data platforms.
• Review delivery work to ensure high standards for scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Diagnose and resolve issues, guide customers through deployments, migrations, and platform modernization.
• Build reusable tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best practices that improve delivery quality across the organization.

Skills

Airflow expertise

Airflow DAGs production

Airflow tuning & data quality

Platform deployments

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud data platforms

Databricks/Snowflake/dbt/BigQuery/Red

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

Astronomer is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead delivery architecture for customer engagements, combining solution design with hands‑on work to operationalize Airflow and Astro at scale.

You will design end‑to‑end platform architectures, guide deployments, migrations, and platform modernization, and build reusable tools and reference architectures to raise delivery quality across the organization.