Senior Enterprise Data Platform 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 ServiceNow Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform, spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers. The role partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable data foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of modern data platforms with strong architectural judgment and has led data-platform programs of meaningful

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of experience in data engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
• Deep expertise across at least two major data platforms such as 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.
• Strong data modeling expertise across dimensional, normalized, and data-vault patterns.
• Experience implementing governance, lineage, and catalog capabilities.
• Solid grasp of cloud platforms, networking, identity, and cost optimization.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Track record of leading large data platform initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture for the enterprise data platform.
• Set standards for data modeling, schema evolution, and storage.
• Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns using Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines balancing latency, cost, and reliability.
• Lead governance, lineage, and catalog tool integration (Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Unity Catalog, DataHub).
• Define security architecture with row- and column-level controls, masking, and encryption.
• Partner with ML, BI, and product teams to align platform with downstream needs.
• Establish data contracts and data product principles for ownership and decoupling.
• Lead architecture reviews and advise on pipeline/warehouse proposals.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning.
• Design disaster recovery and multi-region HA for critical assets.
• Mentor engineers and architects on standards and best practices.
• Produce architecture artifacts: context diagrams, decision records, and reference patterns.
• Stay current with data platform research and vendor innovations.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Streaming systems

Cloud platforms

Governance & lineage

Stakeholder management

Communication

Production-scale Spark/Flink/Kafka

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Enterprise ServiceNow Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform, spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers. The role partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a scalable data foundation.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of modern data platforms with strong architectural judgment and has led data-platform programs of meaningful