Senior Data Architect: Enterprise Data Platform & Governance

Bonterra Tech LLC; United States; Remote; USD 136,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Paid holidays

Volunteer time off

401(k) plan with 3% company match

Job summary

Bonterra is seeking a Sr. Data Architect to lead the strategic direction of the company’s data architecture and data warehouse platform.

You will shape standards, governance, and roadmaps for enterprise-wide data consumption, collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to align with organizational goals and AOP planning. You will mentor data professionals, drive adoption of modern technologies like Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, and influence cross-functional technology decisions to support

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering and architecture experience.
• Deep expertise in modern data stack architecture — Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, or similar), and BI tooling.
• Proven experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data warehouses with complex, cross-domain data models.
• Track record of setting and enforcing data governance frameworks that scale across teams and use cases.
• Strong executive communication skills; able to influence platform direction with senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic architecture vision for Bonterra's Enterprise data platform — including warehouse design, transformation standards, semantic layer, and data product frameworks.
• Own enterprise-level data governance — including data contracts, ownership models, quality SLAs, and lineage across all data domains.
• Define the gold-standard architecture patterns and dbt modeling conventions that the team implements across all pipelines and domains.
• Partner with IT leadership and business stakeholders to align data platform strategy with organizational priorities and AOP planning.
• Evaluate and lead adoption of new data technologies, platforms, and methodologies — balancing innovation with stability and team capacity.
• Mentor Data Architects and Data Engineers; elevate the team's architectural thinking and drive consistency in execution.
• Represent the data platform perspective in cross-functional planning, vendor evaluation, and enterprise technology decisions.

Skills

BigQuery/Snowflake/Redshift

dbt

Airflow/Prefect

Data governance

Executive communication

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

BI tools

Job description

Bonterra is seeking a Sr. Data Architect to lead the strategic direction of the company’s data architecture and data warehouse platform.

You will shape standards, governance, and roadmaps for enterprise-wide data consumption, collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to align with organizational goals and AOP planning. You will mentor data professionals, drive adoption of modern technologies like Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, and influence cross-functional technology decisions to support