Senior Cloud Data Architect & Enterprise Platform Lead

Hitachids; Reading, Northern (Berks County, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services in Reading, PA is seeking a Senior Data Architect/Enterprise Data Architect to design and modernize enterprise-scale data platforms powering BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, data engineers, and solution architects to define scalable architectures, cloud data platforms, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions, while guiding ETL/ELT and real-time integration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development.
• 5+ years leading data engineering initiatives and delivering enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Proven experience designing and owning enterprise data architecture, not just developing individual pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture across conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Architect scalable cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions.
• Lead architecture and implementation of ETL/ELT, batch processing, streaming, and real-time data integration.
• Design enterprise data solutions supporting BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Establish patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, integration, and consumption.
• Design distributed, scalable, highly available, and high-performance data architectures.
• Ensure data platforms meet performance, reliability, security, monitoring, automation, and availability.
• Provide technical leadership to data engineering teams.
• Support event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and modern data integration patterns.
• Drive DevOps practices including Agile, CI/CD, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platforms and improvements to modernize the data ecosystem.
• Collaborate with AI/ML and analytics teams to enable data consumption for advanced analytics.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Enterprise data architecture ownership

Stakeholder collaboration

Cloud data platform design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Talend

dbt

Python

SQL

Job description

Hitachi Digital Services in Reading, PA is seeking a Senior Data Architect/Enterprise Data Architect to design and modernize enterprise-scale data platforms powering BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, data engineers, and solution architects to define scalable architectures, cloud data platforms, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions, while guiding ETL/ELT and real-time integration.