Senior Cloud Data Architect & Strategy Leader

CapTech; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Flexible work environment

Job summary

CapTech is seeking a Data Architect to align client business goals with advanced data technologies and architecture, driving data-driven outcomes. You will lead data engineering teams, shape strategic plans, and champion modern enterprise data solutions across on-premises and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with executive stakeholders, delivering high-value data solutions, and growing CapTech’s analytics capabilities in client engagements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience implementing with a variety of on-premises and cloud data management, integration, visualization, and analytical technologies.
• Advanced proficiency in the design and implementation of modern data architectures and concepts such as cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), real-time data distribution (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, DataFlow, Airflow), NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, HBase, CosmosDB) and modern data warehouse tools including Snowflake and DataBricks.
• Advanced proficiency in end-to-end data architecture solutions including ingestion, storage and relational modeling leveraging industry standard languages including SQL and Python.
• Ability to think strategically and relate architectural decisions and recommendations to business needs and client culture.
• Ability to assess traditional and modern data architectural components based on business needs.
• Experience in recommending data governance best practices including MDM, security, privacy and policies.
• Experience leading enterprise engineering teams through implementations serving as POC on design decisions and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Assessing and advocating data management technologies and practices eliminating gaps between the current state and a well-targeted future state.
• Interpreting and delivering impactful strategic plans improving data integration, data quality, and data delivery in support of business initiatives and roadmaps.
• Formulating and articulating architectural trade-offs across solution options before recommending an optimal solution ensuring technical requirements are met.
• Leading teams of data engineers and other technical team members through design, implementation and best practices.
• Providing insights to executive stakeholders and development teams to ensure data architecture recommendations maximize the value of client data across the organization.
• Works to ensure the solutions recommended are providing business value and alignment with client’s strategic goals.
• Communication with non-technical executives focusing on value of modern enterprise level data solutions.
• Driving innovative technology solutions through thought leadership on emerging trends.
• Sharing project solutions and outcomes with colleagues to improve delivery on future projects.
• Leadership within the Data & Analytics practice area focused on growing and development capabilities and talent.
• Partnering with CapTech business development team to demonstrate CapTech’s technical capabilities, envision a proposed solution CapTech can offer, and estimate proposed work plans.

Skills

7+ years experience

Cloud data platforms

Data architecture

Data governance

Leadership

Tools

Snowflake

DataBricks

Kafka

Kinesis

Airflow

MongoDB

DynamoDB

HBase

CosmosDB

SQL

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

CapTech is seeking a Data Architect to align client business goals with advanced data technologies and architecture, driving data-driven outcomes. You will lead data engineering teams, shape strategic plans, and champion modern enterprise data solutions across on-premises and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with executive stakeholders, delivering high-value data solutions, and growing CapTech’s analytics capabilities in client engagements.