Senior Data Architect

Compensation & Location

• Location: Onsite in Marysville, OH
• Pay Range: $72.00 – $79.00 per hour, based on experience and internal equity
• Schedule: Full-time, contract; long-term multi-year opportunity
• Work Type: 100% Onsite
• Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance, 401k, Continuing and on-demand education

📍 You must be willing to work onsite in Marysville, OH

✅ Sponsorship is available for this role

‼️ ONLY W2 – NO CORP to CORP – NO 3rd Parties

Position Summary

The Senior Data Architect will lead enterprise-level data architecture initiatives that transform business requirements into scalable, secure, and efficient data solutions. This individual will design, implement, and maintain modern data architectures leveraging cloud technologies while ensuring governance, compliance, and alignment with strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate complex business needs into data models, metadata standards, and data governance frameworks.
• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards and documentation.
• Design and implement data systems such as databases, warehouses, and data lakes.
• Collaborate across IT, business, and analytics teams to deliver integrated and secure data solutions.
• Implement and manage data protection measures (filtering, masking, encryption, and fencing).
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for data management and analytics.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance with industry regulations (SOX, CCPA, GDPR, etc.).
• Lead architecture reviews, governance processes, and data strategy planning.
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of enterprise data pipelines.

What You’ll Be Working On

• Designing and optimizing cloud data lake and warehouse solutions.
• Establishing data protection strategies for storage, compute, and API layers.
• Implementing scalable data pipelines using modern data engineering practices.
• Partnering with leadership to develop long-term data strategy roadmaps.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of data architecture and data modeling experience.
• Expertise in Erwin or similar data modeling tools.
• Strong proficiency in AWS, Redshift, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Knowledge of real-time data tools (Kafka, Kinesis, Dataflow).
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases (DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Proven ability to design and deploy modern big-data architectures.
• Advanced understanding of metadata systems, data quality, and governance.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills across cross-functional teams.

Desired Skills

• Experience with Informatica, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Background in data security, privacy, and compliance.
• Familiarity with data warehouse optimization and real-time analytics.
• 3+ years Big 4 consulting experience preferred.
• Stable work history with large enterprise organizations.