Data Architect
1+ year contracted
Key Responsibilities
- Design enterprise-scale Data, Big Data, Analytics, and AI platforms
- Architect Data Lakes, Lakehouses, Data Warehouses, Data Marts, and Big Data environments
- Design architectures supporting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Establish data platform standards, reference architectures, and best practices
- Design highly scalable batch, streaming, and real-time data processing ecosystems
- Define enterprise patterns for data ingestion, integration, transformation, orchestration, and delivery
- Design and govern data architectures supporting AI, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, and Generative AI workloads
- Ensure enterprise data is discoverable, trusted, governed, and consumable for AI initiatives
- Design metadata, lineage, cataloging, and semantic layer capabilities required for AI adoption
- Establish architecture standards supporting RAG, Knowledge Graphs, Vector Stores, AI Agents, and MLOpsplatforms
- Define processes and controls to improve data quality and data reliability for AI model training and inference
- Collaborate with Data Science and AI teams to ensure data platforms meet AI readiness requirements
Required Skills
- 10+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Big Data Architecture, or Enterprise Information Management
- Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise on-premises data platforms
- Proven experience designing large-scale Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Lakehouse platforms
- Experience designing Big Data environments handling high-volume and high-velocity workloads
- Experience establishing enterprise data governance and data quality frameworks
- Experience supporting AI, Machine Learning, and Advanced Analytics initiatives throughenterprise data architecture
- Experience working with distributed processing and storage platforms
- Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Airflow, NiFi, Trino, Flink, HDFS, Ozone, MinIO, Cloudera, and Stackable
- PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB
- Vector Databases and Knowledge Graph Platforms
- Ataccama, Alation, Collibra, OpenLineage, and Informatica
- Power BI, Tableau, and Superset
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