Senior Data Architect: Cloud-First Enterprise Platform Lead

Good co India; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design and lead enterprise data architectures across cloud platforms and analytics ecosystems. You will translate business needs into scalable data models, pipelines, and integrations while enforcing governance, security, and cost efficiencies.

The role requires strong SQL, data modeling, and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) with a track record of data modernization and mentoring technical teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, data architecture, BI, or enterprise data management.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures and platforms.
• Strong expertise in data modeling, data warehousing, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures.
• Advanced SQL and experience with relational databases.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data tech stack.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead scalable, secure data architectures aligned with business objectives.
• Define data architecture strategies, standards, roadmaps, and governance practices.
• Translate requirements into data models, platforms, integrations, and technical solutions.
• Design data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, and cloud-based platforms.
• Develop logical/physical/conceptual data models and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Architect data integration across databases, apps, APIs, and cloud services.
• Establish data governance, quality, lineage, metadata, and master data management.
• Design secure architectures with access controls, encryption, and privacy controls.
• Optimize platforms for performance, scalability, availability, and cost.
• Lead data migrations, modernization, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate data technologies and architectural patterns; mentor teams.
• Collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, BI, data scientists, security, and stakeholders.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technology assessments, and performance evaluations.
• Maintain documentation and standards for data integration, storage, and lifecycle.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Data Science/related field

Master's degree advantageous

Relevant certifications (AWS Data Engineer / Google Professional Data Engineer / Azure Data Engineer / Databricks / Snowflake / DAMA CDMP)

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Oracle

MongoDB

Cassandra

DynamoDB

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Azure Synapse

Apache Spark

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Good co India is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design and lead enterprise data architectures across cloud platforms and analytics ecosystems. You will translate business needs into scalable data models, pipelines, and integrations while enforcing governance, security, and cost efficiencies.

The role requires strong SQL, data modeling, and cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) with a track record of data modernization and mentoring technical teams.