Senior Data Platform Architect: Lakehouse & AI-Ready

Hitachi - Vantara; California; On-site; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead design and validation of enterprise data management solutions across our portfolio. You will define reference architectures for data lakehouse platforms, governance, and AI-ready data foundations, working with engineering, product, and customers to translate requirements into scalable, compliant architectures.

You will collaborate with executives and engineers, evaluating new technologies, developing collateral, and driving adoption

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, data engineering, enterprise storage, analytics platforms, or related fields.
• Proven experience designing and validating production-grade data platforms and lakehouse architectures.
• Deep knowledge of data lakes, data lakehouses, object storage, and S3-compatible storage architectures.
• Strong expertise with Apache Iceberg, Parquet, and open table formats; Delta Lake experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with ETL, ELT, batch processing, and streaming data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, and Pentaho PDI.
• Experience designing architectures that integrate governance, metadata management, lineage, data quality, classification, retention, and auditability requirements.
• Familiarity with governance platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, DataHub, or OpenMetadata.
• Understanding of AI-ready data foundations, including support for analytics, generative AI, RAG, metadata enrichment, and data governance for AI workloads.
• Experience with modern query and federation technologies such as Trino, Starburst, Dremio, Snowflake, Databricks SQL, Athena, Presto, or Denodo.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, with the ability to develop reference architectures, lead technical workshops, support executive discussions, and translate complex concepts into clear business value.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, validation, and development of modern enterprise data management solutions across the Hitachi portfolio.
• Define reference architectures, validate technical patterns, and provide customer-facing guidance for data lakehouse platforms and governance frameworks.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, governed architectures and support proofs of concept.
• Engage with customers and executive stakeholders to communicate value and drive adoption.
• Evaluate new technologies and develop technical collateral.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Data architecture

Data engineering

Enterprise storage

Analytics platforms

Governance concepts

AI foundations

Customer facing comms

Reference architectures

Cloud familiarity

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Parquet

Open table formats

Delta Lake

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Airflow

Pentaho PDI

Job description

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead design and validation of enterprise data management solutions across our portfolio. You will define reference architectures for data lakehouse platforms, governance, and AI-ready data foundations, working with engineering, product, and customers to translate requirements into scalable, compliant architectures.

You will collaborate with executives and engineers, evaluating new technologies, developing collateral, and driving adoption