Data Architect

Sparks Group
Dallas, TX, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineering Data as a Services Data Architecture Information Engineering Data Governance Data Infrastructure Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Transformation
+6 more
Data Warehousing Machine Learning Enterprise Data Management Data Lakes Data Analytics Data Management

Job description

Job Summary/Company: Our client is seeking a Data Architect to design scalable, AI-ready data platforms that support analytics, machine learning, and enterprise modernization initiatives. This role will serve as both a technical architect and advisor, helping organizations design cloud-based data environments that enable successful AI and data-driven business outcomes. Responsibilities

  • Design enterprise data architectures including data lakes, lakehouses, cloud repositories, and hybrid environments that support analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives.
  • Lead architecture assessments, develop target-state designs, and provide strategic guidance on cloud platforms, data governance, integration patterns, and data modernization efforts.
  • Partner with data engineers, cloud engineers, and AI teams to ensure data environments are scalable, secure, well-governed, and optimized for future AI use cases.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, cloud architecture, or related technical disciplines with demonstrated ownership of enterprise data platform design.
  • Strong experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, along with data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, ETL/ELT concepts, and modern cloud-native data services.
  • Ability to operate as a client-facing advisor while maintaining sufficient hands-on technical depth to guide architecture decisions and support implementation teams.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plan
  • Life insurance, We offer several comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, paid and unpaid time off, and retirement and savings plans to qualifying employees.

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