Senior Cloud Data Platform Architect — Hybrid

First Tech Federal Credit Union; Hillsboro (OR); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Employee discounts on lending products

Job summary

First Tech Federal Credit Union is seeking a Principal Cloud Data Solutions Architect in Hillsboro, OR. This senior role leads hands-on data engineering and enterprise cloud data strategy, delivering scalable, secure data platforms and trusted data products across teams.

The position emphasizes architecture, standards, and production delivery with significant autonomy. You will guide architecture reviews, mentor teams, and shape roadmaps for real-time data, data mesh concepts, and FinOps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data, software, or technology experience.
• 5+ years architecting and implementing enterprise data solutions on AWS or an equivalent public cloud platform.
• 7+ years designing, building, and operating modern data platforms and distributed data systems.

Responsibilities

• Define, evolve, and govern cloud data solutions architecture principles and patterns.
• Design end-to-end cloud data architectures spanning ingestion, storage, lakehouse, and analytics.
• Own the technical direction and delivery quality of complex data initiatives across production pipelines.
• Partner with business, data governance, security, and platform teams to deliver governed data products.

Job description

First Tech Federal Credit Union is seeking a Principal Cloud Data Solutions Architect in Hillsboro, OR. This senior role leads hands-on data engineering and enterprise cloud data strategy, delivering scalable, secure data platforms and trusted data products across teams.

The position emphasizes architecture, standards, and production delivery with significant autonomy. You will guide architecture reviews, mentor teams, and shape roadmaps for real-time data, data mesh concepts, and FinOps.