Senior Enterprise Data Architect - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Sugar Land (TX); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of a comprehensive data platform for ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption. The role requires deep technical mastery and proven leadership across large data programs.

The ideal candidate will drive standards for modeling, lakehouse design, and security, partnering with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business teams to deliver a scalable data foundation. Remote U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Eight+ years of experience in data engineering with architecture roles.
• Deep expertise across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Strong understanding of lakehouse architectures, modern table formats, and streaming systems.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, or Kafka at production scale.
• Data modeling expertise across dimensional, normalized, and data vault patterns.
• Experience implementing governance, lineage, and catalog capabilities.
• Cloud platforms, networking, identity, and cost optimization knowledge.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Track record of leading large data platform initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture of the enterprise data platform including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers.
• Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, partitioning, formats, and storage organization.
• Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns using Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or DataHub.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines balancing latency, cost, and reliability for batch and streaming workloads.
• Lead governance, lineage, and catalog tool integration (Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Unity Catalog, DataHub).
• Define security architecture with row- and column-level controls, masking, encryption, and identity-aware access patterns.
• Partner with ML, BI, and product teams to align platform capabilities with downstream needs.
• Establish data contracts and data product principles for ownership and quality.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on pipeline and warehouse design proposals.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning across the data platform estate.
• Design disaster recovery, multi-region, and high-availability strategies for critical data assets.
• Mentor engineers and architects on platform standards and best practices.
• Produce architecture artifacts and stay current with data platform research.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Architectural judgement

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Spark

Flink

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of a comprehensive data platform for ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption. The role requires deep technical mastery and proven leadership across large data programs.

The ideal candidate will drive standards for modeling, lakehouse design, and security, partnering with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business teams to deliver a scalable data foundation. Remote U.S.