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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Architect - **Company:** Tiger Analytics - **Location:** Westwood, MA, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Cloud Engineering, Data as a Services, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Queries, Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Meta-Data Management, Data Streaming, Snowflake, Data Analytics, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka, Physical Data Models, Domain Driven Design, Data Pipelines, Legacy Systems - **Published:** September 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_e8556fc13 ## About the Role * Significant experience with canonical data modeling and enterprise-wide conceptual/logical/physical modeling. * Strong background in semantic modeling and data mesh design principles. * Hands-on experience with Kafka, including event modeling, schema strategy, and real-time pipeline architecture. * Proficiency in AWS data services (S3, Redshift, Glue, EMR, Lambda, EC2) and Snowflake. * Strong understanding of ETL/ELT design, data integration patterns, and distributed data systems. * Familiarity with data governance, data quality, metadata, and lineage frameworks. * Strong SQL skills and proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred). * Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams. * Hands-on experience with enterprise data catalog and metadata systems. * AWS certification (Solutions Architect, Data Analytics Specialty, etc.) ## Description If you are passionate about leading large-scale cloud and data modernization initiatives that transform enterprise platforms, we would love to hear from you. We are seeking an experienced and dynamic professional to play a key role in assessing, planning, and driving enterprise migration programs across data, applications, and cloud platforms. This role will help clients modernize their technology landscape, optimize legacy systems, and enable scalable, cloud-native architectures aligned with business goals. The Data Architect will support enterprise data initiatives by designing and delivering scalable, modern data architecture solutions with a primary focus on canonical data modeling, semantic data mesh, and real-time streaming architectures using Kafka. This role drives alignment across business domains and enables high-quality, governed, and interoperable data for analytics and operational use cases., 1. Develop and enhance canonical data models, semantic models, and domain-driven data contracts to enable cross-enterprise data interoperability. 2. Produce conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned to business capabilities, modernization goals, and data mesh principles. 3. Design and implement data architecture patterns to support real-time streaming solutions using Kafka. 4. Partner with product owners, domain architects, and data engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable, well-governed data models. 5. Ensure consistent application of data governance, metadata management, and lineage standards across data domains. 6. Architect and optimize data pipelines and storage solutions using AWS (S3, Redshift, Glue, EMR, Lambda) and Snowflake. 7. Contribute architectural artifacts, modeling standards, and reusable templates for enterprise data modeling. 8. 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