Senior Data Platform Architect — Lakehouse & AI-Ready

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

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara, a global data platform leader, is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to design, validate, and implement enterprise data management solutions across its portfolio. You will craft reference architectures for lakehouse platforms, governance frameworks, and AI-ready foundations, translating business needs into scalable, compliant implementations with direct customer engagement.

You will work with engineering, product, and sales teams to drive adoption of open data platforms,

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 the 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, object storage, and AI-ready data foundations.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, governed, and compliant architectures while engaging with customers and executives.

Skills

Data architecture

Solutions architecture

Data platforms

Lakehouse architectures

Governance frameworks

ETL/ELT pipelines

Governance tools

AI-ready data foundations

Federation technologies

Customer-facing communication

Job description

Hitachi Vantara, a global data platform leader, is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to design, validate, and implement enterprise data management solutions across its portfolio. You will craft reference architectures for lakehouse platforms, governance frameworks, and AI-ready foundations, translating business needs into scalable, compliant implementations with direct customer engagement.

You will work with engineering, product, and sales teams to drive adoption of open data platforms,