Senior Data Solution Architect – Global Platform

Wilmington Trust; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 163,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Wilmington Trust is seeking a senior Data Solution Architect to translate complex business processes into scalable data architectures and governance frameworks. You will guide cross-functional teams, define data models, contracts, and integration patterns, and ensure cloud-ready designs aligned with enterprise standards and risk controls.

This role focuses on building a strategic platform that consolidates data from disparate systems to enable data-driven decision making across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years related experience, or 13 years combined education/work experience with 9 years related experience.
• Experience leading initiatives across multiple technology practices and business verticals.
• Experience creating componentized scalable designs.
• Experience driving design, refactor and optimization of frameworks.
• Experience with multiple programming languages and tools and how they integrate.
• Experience implementing scalable designs on at least one major cloud platform.
• Experience implementing data architecture and integration concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and data integration for complex projects across multiple domains.
• Translate requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Produce data artifacts: dictionaries, data flow diagrams, lineage documentation.
• Create API schema and transition state architecture.
• Document SLAs and ensure design accounts for data frequencies.
• Identify strategy gaps and work with teams to rectify gaps.
• Assess existing systems, data structures, and integrations; define phased path to target architecture.
• Create a data governance framework including data quality rules and audits.
• Ensure cloud-ready, portable designs with multi-cloud considerations.
• Collaborate with agile team to apply best practices in data platform development.
• Establish non-functional standards and reusable patterns across value chains.
• Coordinate release planning to align dependencies and business value.
• Help establish data architecture standards across releases.
• Adhere to risk, regulatory standards and control requirements.

Skills

Data architecture

Data integration

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Stakeholder collaboration

API design

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 9+ years experience

Tools

TOGAF certification

AWS/Azure/GCP cloud platforms

Containerization technologies

Data modeling tools

Job description

Wilmington Trust is seeking a senior Data Solution Architect to translate complex business processes into scalable data architectures and governance frameworks. You will guide cross-functional teams, define data models, contracts, and integration patterns, and ensure cloud-ready designs aligned with enterprise standards and risk controls.

This role focuses on building a strategic platform that consolidates data from disparate systems to enable data-driven decision making across the enterprise.