Senior Data Platform Architect (Hybrid, Jersey City)

Akkodis; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a Data Platform Architect for a contract role in Jersey City, offering hybrid work arrangement. The position emphasizes leading enterprise-scale data modernization, cloud migrations, and governance across on-prem and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in data platform architecture, with strong expertise in Databricks, large-scale data movement, and security/compliance. Financial services context is a plus, with a rate of $70-80 per hour.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data platform architecture, data engineering, or distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale cloud migration initiatives involving hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state architecture for enterprise data platforms and cloud-native analytics solutions.
• Lead the migration of large-scale data environments from on-premises platforms to a cloud environment.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure data architectures capable of supporting petabyte-scale workloads.
• Establish architectural standards, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure alignment with enterprise cloud strategies.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies for data storage, processing, streaming, governance, and observability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams implementing Spark, Kafka, Databricks, and cloud-native services.
• Drive performance optimization, cost management, and operational excellence across the data platform.
• Support executive stakeholders with migration roadmaps, risk assessments, and modernization strategies.

Skills

Data platform architecture

Cloud migration leadership

Databricks

Java

Python

SQL

Data governance

Tools

AMPS

MQ

Hadoop

Vertica

Teradata

Snowflake

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a Data Platform Architect for a contract role in Jersey City, offering hybrid work arrangement. The position emphasizes leading enterprise-scale data modernization, cloud migrations, and governance across on-prem and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in data platform architecture, with strong expertise in Databricks, large-scale data movement, and security/compliance. Financial services context is a plus, with a rate of $70-80 per hour.