Strategic Enterprise Data Architect & Platform Lead

Polluxa, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. seeks an accomplished Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and strategy across data domains, platforms, and analytics. You will drive design reviews, model evolution, and cross‑team alignment while embedding security and compliance into data designs.

The role requires 7+ years in IT with 5+ years in data leadership, extensive SQL/NoSQL, and hands‑on cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP). Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with at least CS coursework hours.
• 7+ years of professional IT experience in analysis, design, or enterprise data environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on data leadership involving enterprise data architecture, strategy, governance, migration, or data management.
• Strong experience with enterprise data architecture and data management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain enterprise data architecture, standards, patterns, and reference models.
• Lead enterprise data design reviews.
• Establish data architectural principles and standards.
• Provide strategic direction across data domains, platforms, integrations, analytics, and operational systems.
• Ensure security, privacy, compliance, and risk principles are embedded into data designs.
• Guide data architecture, modeling, canonical data models, and cross-platform data flows.
• Evaluate modern data technologies, platforms, tooling, and architectural patterns.
• Identify data gaps, redundancies, risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
• Drive alignment among vendors, technical teams, business stakeholders, and enterprise leadership.
• Support strategic data planning and long‑term data model evolution.
• Establish and maintain data lifecycle‑management strategies.
• Oversee data architecture documentation, lineage diagrams, data dictionaries, mapping artifacts, and reference models.
• Ensure vendor‑produced data documentation meets enterprise standards.
• Support data governance, data quality, MDM, migration, integration, and analytics initiatives.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint reviews, architecture reviews, and design discussions.
• Support RAID management and data‑related risk mitigation.
• Provide executive‑level technical guidance and recommendations.
• Mentor and guide data architects, engineers, analysts, and technical teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Cloud data

SQL

NoSQL

APIs

ETL/ELT

Event-driven pipelines

SOA

Education

Bachelor's degree with CS coursework

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. seeks an accomplished Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture, governance, and strategy across data domains, platforms, and analytics. You will drive design reviews, model evolution, and cross‑team alignment while embedding security and compliance into data designs.

The role requires 7+ years in IT with 5+ years in data leadership, extensive SQL/NoSQL, and hands‑on cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP). Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.