Senior Solutions Architect - Modern Data Platforms

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara seeks a senior Solutions Architect to lead architectural design and validation for modern data management platforms. You will craft reference architectures spanning open table formats, object storage, lakehouse patterns, governance, and AI-ready data foundations.

Collaboration with product, engineering, and customer teams will be essential to deliver scalable, compliant analytics solutions. The role emphasizes hands-on validation, lab testing, and customer-facing guidance, with a

Qualifications

• 10+ years in solutions or data architecture, with enterprise data platforms experience.
• Proven ability to design governed, compliant data platforms with open formats.
• Hands-on validation in lab, POC, or customer deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data management architectures combining storage, formats, governance, and pipelines.
• Develop reference architectures using Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, and S3-compatible storage.
• Create customer-facing briefs, guidance, and demonstrations for Hitachi platforms.
• Support POC activities and executive-level solution discussions.

Skills

Open table formats

Apache Iceberg

Data lakehouse

Metadata catalogs

Federated query

Tools

Apache Spark

Kafka

Flink

Airflow

Job description

Hitachi Vantara seeks a senior Solutions Architect to lead architectural design and validation for modern data management platforms. You will craft reference architectures spanning open table formats, object storage, lakehouse patterns, governance, and AI-ready data foundations.

Collaboration with product, engineering, and customer teams will be essential to deliver scalable, compliant analytics solutions. The role emphasizes hands-on validation, lab testing, and customer-facing guidance, with a