Senior Data Architect - Enterprise Data & Cloud Strategy

Apex Systems; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K plan with match

ESPP

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design, evolution, and modernization of enterprise data platforms for Global Regulatory Reporting. You will shape the architecture, establish standards, and drive scalable solutions across on-premises and cloud ecosystems.

Collaborate with business leaders, data engineers, governance groups, and security teams to ensure compliance with regulatory and enterprise strategy while guiding modernization initiatives, data governance, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data architecture or related technology roles.
• 7+ years designing enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Proven experience architecting large-scale solutions utilizing Hadoop, Oracle, and cloud technologies. Experience leading enterprise modernization and migration initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Establish and ensure adherence to architectural standards, principles, and best practices.
• Design scalable architectures for data ingestion, processing, storage, integration, and consumption.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve efficiency and business outcomes.
• Design migration and modernization initiatives involving legacy platforms, Oracle databases, and Hadoop ecosystems.
• Design and optimize enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and analytical platforms.
• Provide strategic direction for cloud adoption and hybrid architectures.
• Develop long-term strategies for platform consolidation and cost optimization.
• Promote reusable frameworks and standardized integration patterns.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement scalable data pipelines.
• Ensure data architectures comply with regulatory, risk, privacy, and security requirements.
• Partner with data governance organizations to define metadata, lineage, and data quality standards.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders.

Skills

Hadoop/Spark

Data Lakes/Warehouses

Oracle/SQL Server

AWS & Cloud

ETL/ELT frameworks

SQL/Python/Java

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization

Starburst/Trino

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design, evolution, and modernization of enterprise data platforms for Global Regulatory Reporting. You will shape the architecture, establish standards, and drive scalable solutions across on-premises and cloud ecosystems.

Collaborate with business leaders, data engineers, governance groups, and security teams to ensure compliance with regulatory and enterprise strategy while guiding modernization initiatives, data governance, and