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# Data Mesh/Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** Synechron Inc
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $145,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Microsoft SQL Server, Reference Data, Cloud Services, Data Mesh, Azure Data Lake, SAS (Software), SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Transact-SQL, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Archimate, Togaf, Collibra, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Databricks
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/2_163229242

## About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Data Mesh / Enterprise Data Architect with deep expertise in designing and implementing modern data platforms within the financial services domain. The ideal candidate will have hands on experience in data architecture, including operating at the enterprise or principal architect level., * 10+ years in data architecture, 5+ at enterprise or principal level in financial services.

 * Genuine data mesh / data-product architecture delivery, not familiarity with the literature.

 * Candidates must be able to describe a specific domain decomposition they authored, the contested boundaries within it, and how the platform-versus-domain responsibility split was enforced.

 * Deep lakehouse and medallion architecture: Databricks with Unity Catalog, Delta, Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

 * Must be able to reason about equivalents on AWS (Lake Formation, Glue Data Catalog, Amazon DataZone) when comparing options.

 * Reference and master data architecture: vendor onboarding, identifier crosswalks across FIGI, LEI/GLEIF, CUSIP/ISIN, SEDOL and MIC, mastering and distribution to consuming domains.

 * SQL Server and T-SQL depth sufficient to reason about stored-procedure decomposition - the ownership boundaries in MCDB are inside the procedures, not the schema names.

 * TOGAF 9 or 10 certified, with demonstrable use of TOGAF to define and govern patterns; ArchiMate or C4 modelling in production use.

Preferred qualification

 * FIBO applied to a taxonomy or ontology exercise; ODCS or comparable data-contract specification.

 * Lineage and catalogue tooling in anger: Solidatus, Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, , Anomalo.

 * Experience with automated code-intelligence accelerators for SQL/SAS estate analysis.

## Description

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors. In accordance with law, the base salary for this role if filled within NYC is $135k - $145k/year & benefits (see below).

The Role

Responsibilities:

 * This role requires hands-on experience leading data mesh and data product architecture initiatives, defining domain boundaries, establishing governance models, and driving lakehouse-based enterprise data strategies.

 * The candidate will play a key role in architecting scalable, governed, and business-aligned data ecosystems leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Azure, and cloud-native data services while ensuring effective reference data management and enterprise architecture governance frameworks.