Data Platform Architect
ITAC
Birmingham, United States of America
15 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
$ 130KJob location
Birmingham, United States of America
Tech stack
API
Artificial Intelligence
Google BigQuery
Data Infrastructure
Python
Enterprise Messaging Systems
Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server Analysis Services
T-SQL
Data Ingestion
Azure
Snowflake
Event Driven Architecture
Kubernetes
Kafka
Vertica
Databricks
Job description
- Opportunity to architect enterprise-wide data and integration platforms
- Highly visible role partnering directly with executive leadership
- Hands-on influence over AI-driven engineering initiatives and automation
- Fast-growing organization with large-scale technical challenges
- Hybrid work environment in Birmingham, AL
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Collaborative team focused on innovation and modern technologies, * Define and lead the target-state architecture for enterprise data platforms
- Design data ingestion, storage, modeling, governance, and serving solutions
- Build and support event-driven systems utilizing APIs, CDC, messaging platforms, and Kubernetes
- Drive AI-assisted engineering and development automation initiatives
- Establish data quality standards, governance, and security controls
- Lead architecture reviews and mentor engineering teams
- Translate business objectives into scalable technical roadmaps
Requirements
- Strong expertise with SQL Server, SSAS, Azure Data Factory, and T-SQL
- Experience with ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar columnar platforms
- Production-level development experience in Python and/or Go
- Experience designing event-driven architectures utilizing REST, Kafka, NATS, or CDC
- Experience operating workloads within Kubernetes environments
- Ability to drive AI-assisted engineering initiatives and platform strategy
Benefits & conditions
- $115,000 - $140,000 base salary + bonus eligible