Senior Remote Enterprise Data Platform Architect

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform, spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers.

The role drives data infrastructure strategy, sets standards for data modeling and lifecycle management, and partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a coherent, scalable data foundation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering with architecture roles.
• Deep expertise across two or more data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Redshift).
• Strong understanding of lakehouse architectures, modern table formats, and streaming systems.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, or Kafka in production.
• Experience implementing governance, lineage, and catalog capabilities.
• Cloud platform proficiency and cost optimization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Track record of leading large data platform initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers.
• Set standards for data modeling, schema evolution, and storage organization.
• Architect lakehouse and streaming patterns using Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines balancing latency, cost, and reliability.
• Lead integration of governance, lineage, and catalog tools.
• Define security architecture with row/column-level controls and encryption.
• Partner with ML/BI/product teams for platform alignment.
• Establish data contracts and data product principles.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on pipelines and warehouse design.
• Drive cost optimization and capacity planning across the estate.
• Design disaster recovery and high-availability strategies.
• Mentor engineers and architects on standards and best practices.
• Produce architecture artifacts and stay current with data platform developments.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Spark/Flink/Kafka

Data governance

Communication

Cost optimization

Leadership

Education

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

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Collibra

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to define and lead the architecture of our enterprise data platform, spanning ingestion, storage, processing, governance, and consumption layers.

The role drives data infrastructure strategy, sets standards for data modeling and lifecycle management, and partners with data engineering, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to deliver a coherent, scalable data foundation.