Senior Data Platform Architect: Lakehouse & AI-Ready

Hitachi Vantara; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a senior Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience to own architecture and solution development for enterprise data platforms. You will work across open table formats, lakehouse architectures, governance, and AI-ready foundations to deliver scalable, compliant data solutions.

The role requires hands-on pattern development, reference architectures, and collaboration with engineering, product, and customers to enable governed analytics and AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, or related roles.
• Proven ability to design production data platforms with governance and compliance in mind.
• Strong ability to translate complex concepts into customer-facing guidance and narratives.
• Hands-on experience validating architectures in lab, PoCs, or customer deployments.
• Ability to work across engineering, product, field, partners and customers to drive solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and validate end-to-end data management architectures combining storage, open formats, query engines, and governance.
• Develop reference architectures for data lakehouse platforms using Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow and S3 storage.
• Document technical patterns for data preparation, ETL/ELT, batch processing, and streaming pipelines.
• Provide architectural guidance for metadata catalogs, lineage, data quality, and compliance operating models.
• Ensure architectures meet privacy, security, and regulatory requirements early in design.
• Create customer-facing solution briefs, design guides, and white papers; collaborate with product and engineering teams.
• Support PoCs, workshops, and executive-level solution discussions with customers and partners.

Skills

Data platforms

Iceberg open table formats

Apache Iceberg

Data governance

Data lineage

Data quality

AI data foundations

Lakehouse architectures

Federated query

PII discovery

ETL/ELT patterns

Spark / Kafka / Flink / Airflow

Tools

Apache Spark

Kafka

Flink

Airflow

Iceberg

Parquet

S3-compatible storage

Job description

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a senior Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience to own architecture and solution development for enterprise data platforms. You will work across open table formats, lakehouse architectures, governance, and AI-ready foundations to deliver scalable, compliant data solutions.

The role requires hands-on pattern development, reference architectures, and collaboration with engineering, product, and customers to enable governed analytics and AI workloads.