Senior Data Architect - Enterprise Cloud & Lakehouse

Hitachi, Ltd.; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi, Ltd. is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design and lead enterprise data architectures across cloud-based platforms. You will partner with stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to shape scalable data ecosystems, data warehouses, lakehouse solutions, and real-time data integration.

The role emphasizes data governance, security, performance, and automated CI/CD practices, with opportunities to guide analytics, AI/ML data pipelines, and enterprise reporting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development.
• 5+ years leading data engineering initiatives and enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture across conceptual, logical, and physical models.
• Architect cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions.
• Lead ETL/ELT, batch, streaming, and real-time data integration implementations.
• Design data solutions for BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting initiatives.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures with stakeholders.
• Establish data ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, and consumption patterns.
• Design distributed, scalable, high-performance data architectures with reliability.
• Ensure performance, security, monitoring, automation, and availability of data platforms.
• Provide technical leadership to data engineering teams and projects.
• Support event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and modern data integration patterns.
• Drive DevOps practices: Agile, CI/CD, containerization, and IaC.

Skills

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Talend

dbt

Python

SQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Education

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

Tools

AWS

S3

EMR

Glue

Redshift

Snowflake

Job description

Hitachi, Ltd. is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design and lead enterprise data architectures across cloud-based platforms. You will partner with stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to shape scalable data ecosystems, data warehouses, lakehouse solutions, and real-time data integration.

The role emphasizes data governance, security, performance, and automated CI/CD practices, with opportunities to guide analytics, AI/ML data pipelines, and enterprise reporting.