Senior Data Architect: Cloud Data & Governance Leader

NuAxis Innovations; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design and manage enterprise data architecture, models, governance, and integration patterns for analytics and applications. This full-time role requires leadership across data domains and cross-system patterns.

You will define standards, patterns, and security controls while mentoring engineering and BI teams to ensure accurate, accessible data across the organization. The role emphasizes governance and cost-aware cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of data architecture experience at enterprise scale.
• Cloud data or architecture certification (AWS Data Analytics - Specialty, Azure Data Engineer Associate, or SnowPro Advanced: Architect).
• TOGAF 9/10 Certified within 180 days of assignment.
• Preferred: DAMA CDMP; Collibra Ranger; Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional.
• Proficient in data modeling, ETL/ELT design, cloud data platforms, governance, metadata, lineage, and security patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data architecture, conceptual, logical, and physical models and data domain standards.
• Design ETL and ELT integration patterns across systems, data platforms, and analytics consumers.
• Establish data governance frameworks: stewardship, metadata, lineage, quality rules, and master data management.
• Architect cloud data platform solutions balancing performance, scalability, security, and cost.
• Define data security, classification, retention, and privacy control patterns.
• Review and approve data designs produced by engineering and BI teams; mentor data practitioners.

Skills

Data modeling

ETL/ELT design

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Metadata & lineage

Integration architecture

Data security & privacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

Azure Synapse

Databricks

dbt

Informatica/Talend/AWS Glue

SQL

Python

Job description

NuAxis Innovations is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design and manage enterprise data architecture, models, governance, and integration patterns for analytics and applications. This full-time role requires leadership across data domains and cross-system patterns.

You will define standards, patterns, and security controls while mentoring engineering and BI teams to ensure accurate, accessible data across the organization. The role emphasizes governance and cost-aware cloud solutions.