Solution Architect

Lovelytics; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data and AI consulting firm is seeking a Solution Architect to design scalable data solutions for various clients. This role involves bridging strategy and delivery, guiding teams, and ensuring best practices in data architecture. Candidates should have extensive experience in data engineering and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, analytics, or architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing and implementing modern data platforms in cloud environments.
• Strong client-facing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design modern data architectures covering ingestion, storage, transformation, analytics, and machine learning.
• Guide teams through data warehouse and lakehouse design.
• Lead architecture reviews and ensure best practices.

Skills

Data ingestion

Data transformation

Cloud Infrastructure

ML workflows

BI/analytics tools

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

Fivetran

Airflow

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Lovelytics is a Databricks-focused data and AI consulting firm specializing in artificial intelligence, data, and analytics solutions. Since partnering with Databricks in 2019, Lovelytics has experienced exponential growth, growing from 50 people to over 340 over the past 3 years. Lovelytics is a trusted partner for many of the most high-profile enterprise clients in Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, Retail & CPG, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Financial Services.

We're looking for a Solution Architect to lead the design of scalable, end-to-end data solutions for clients across industries. This role bridges strategy, architecture, and delivery—working closely with sales, engineers, and business stakeholders.

You’ll play a critical part in presales conversations, define solution architectures, and guide the successful delivery of data platforms, pipelines, analytics environments, and ML capabilities. This is a client-facing role for a hands-on architect with a broad technical skill set and excellent communication abilities.

This role is open to remote candidates in the US and Ontario, Canada.

Responsibilities

1. Design modern data architectures covering ingestion, storage, transformation, analytics, and machine learning.
2. Define scalable cloud-based solutions using tools like Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, Airflow, and others.
3. Guide teams through data warehouse and lakehouse design, ELT/ETL pipelines, and real-time processing solutions.
4. Lead architecture reviews and ensure best practices across performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
5. Provide hands-on technical leadership during delivery, including mentoring engineers and supporting solution implementation.
6. Partner with sales and account teams to support client discovery, requirements gathering, and scoping.
7. Lead technical aspects of proposals, RFPs, and solution demos.
8. Translate business needs into solution blueprints and recommend appropriate tools and patterns.
9. Strong client-facing and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive audiences.

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
2. 8+ years in data engineering, analytics, or architecture roles.
3. Proven experience designing and implementing modern data platforms in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Knowledge across:

1. Data ingestion (batch & streaming – Kafka, Fivetran, APIs).
2. Storage & processing (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery).
3. Data transformation (dbt, Spark, SQL, Python).
4. BI/analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
5. ML workflows and platforms (MLflow, SageMaker, – a plus).
6. Cloud Infrastructure.