Senior Data Architect for Enterprise Data & AI Platforms

Incedo Inc.; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Incedo Inc. is seeking a senior Data Architect to define and govern end-to-end architecture for enterprise data products and platforms. The role emphasizes scalable, reusable, and compliant data architectures with selective hands-on work to establish reference patterns for delivery teams.

You will partner with Data Managers, Platform teams, and Engineering leads to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and modernization goals.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics architecture.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data products and platforms.
• Strong expertise in data modeling, lakehouse architectures, and streaming systems.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for data solutions from source systems through analytics and downstream consumption.
• Design and govern logical, physical, and semantic data models (facts, dimensions, metrics, hierarchies).
• Establish and govern data contracts and domain interfaces.
• Define architectural patterns across Hadoop, lakehouse, and streaming platforms.
• Guide batch, near-real-time, and event-driven designs using Spark and Kafka.
• Ensure alignment across on-prem and cloud-based platforms in a hybrid enterprise environment.
• Review and guide ingestion and data service designs built on Java/Spring Boot and Python.
• Apply graph modeling patterns where relationship-centric use cases require it.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Analytics architecture

Data modeling

Lakehouse

Streaming systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Java

Python

Spring Boot

Job description

Incedo Inc. is seeking a senior Data Architect to define and govern end-to-end architecture for enterprise data products and platforms. The role emphasizes scalable, reusable, and compliant data architectures with selective hands-on work to establish reference patterns for delivery teams.

You will partner with Data Managers, Platform teams, and Engineering leads to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and modernization goals.