Senior Solutions Architect — Modern Data Platforms & Lakehouse AI

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; California (MO); On-site; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara Corporation is seeking a senior Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience to own the technical validation, architecture, and development of enterprise data management platforms across open table formats, object storage, lakehouse architectures, and AI-ready data foundations.

You will design reference architectures, validate patterns in lab environments, partner with engineering and product teams, and translate business requirements into repeatable architectures that help

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, data engineering, or related technical roles.
• Proven experience designing production data platforms with governance and compliance.
• Hands-on experience validating architectures in lab, proof-of-concept, or customer deployment environments.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear customer-facing guidance, reference architectures, and executive-ready solution narratives.
• Ability to work across engineering, product, field, partner, and customer teams to drive solution development from concept through validation and enablement.

Responsibilities

• Design and validate end-to-end data management architectures that combine object storage, open table formats, query engines, governance services, compliance controls, and data pipeline technologies.
• Develop reference architectures for data lakehouse platforms using Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, and S3-compatible storage.
• Build and document technical patterns for data preparation, ETL, ELT, batch processing, and streaming pipelines that support production-grade deployments.
• Define architectural guidance for metadata catalogs, data lineage, data quality, data classification, PII discovery, policy enforcement, auditability, retention, and compliance operating models.
• Ensure solution architectures account for compliance requirements early in the design process, including privacy, security, regulatory alignment, data residency, retention, classification, and access governance.
• Validate interoperability between Hitachi platforms and modern data ecosystem components, including catalog services, query engines, data engineering tools, and AI data services.
• Create customer-facing solution briefs, design guides, technical white papers, demos, and best-practice documentation.
• Partner with product management, engineering, field teams, and strategic customers to translate business and technical requirements into repeatable solution architectures.
• Support proof-of-concept activities, technical workshops, and executive-level solution discussions with customers and partners.
• Evaluate emerging technologies in open table formats, data lakehouse architectures, federated query, AI data management, governance frameworks, and compliance-aware data management practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for modern data management, helping position Hitachi platforms as trusted foundations for governed, compliant analytics and AI workloads.

Skills

Data lakes & lakehouse

Open table formats

Metadata catalogs

Data governance

AI data foundations

Federated query engines

Data pipelines design

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Parquet

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Airflow

Pentaho PDI

Job description

Hitachi Vantara Corporation is seeking a senior Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience to own the technical validation, architecture, and development of enterprise data management platforms across open table formats, object storage, lakehouse architectures, and AI-ready data foundations.

You will design reference architectures, validate patterns in lab environments, partner with engineering and product teams, and translate business requirements into repeatable architectures that help