Senior Enterprise Data Architect & Team Lead

Steampunk; Bloomington (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect Lead to guide enterprise data architectures across complex mission environments. You will lead a team of Data Architects and Data Engineers, shaping data models, governance, and integration patterns for analytics, AI, and enterprise use cases.

You will partner with Data Engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, and AI teams to ensure scalable pipelines and high-performing ML workloads, while aligning with security, lineage, and data quality standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise information architecture roles.
• Strong experience designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models for analytical, transactional, or domain-driven applications.
• Proficiency with modern data platforms and architectural patterns including lakehouse, data warehouse, data mesh, streaming architectures, and multi-cloud ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Data Architects and Data Engineers in designing data models that support analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise integration.
• Develop and maintain canonical data models, semantic layers, metadata structures, and domain-oriented schemas.
• Guide adoption of patterns like lakehouse, data mesh, data fabric, and event-driven integration across teams.
• Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, semantic consistency, and data contract design.
• Partner with Data Engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, and AI Development teams to support scalable pipelines and ML workloads.
• Conduct data architecture reviews ensuring alignment with reference architectures, security, and performance.
• Lead integration strategy across platforms via API-driven data access, streaming, CDC pipelines, and virtualization.
• Translate requirements from stakeholders into well-designed data structures to support workflows.
• Oversee governance-aligned design practices including lineage, cataloging, data quality, and Zero Trust data access.

Skills

Data modeling

Data governance

Domain-driven design

Streaming architectures

Cloud platforms

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Lakehouse

Databricks

Spark

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Data Architecture, or related technical field

Tools

ERWin

ER/Studio

dbt

Collibra

Alation

Atlan

Databricks

Apache Spark

Job description

Steampunk is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect Lead to guide enterprise data architectures across complex mission environments. You will lead a team of Data Architects and Data Engineers, shaping data models, governance, and integration patterns for analytics, AI, and enterprise use cases.

You will partner with Data Engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, and AI teams to ensure scalable pipelines and high-performing ML workloads, while aligning with security, lineage, and data quality standards.