Data Platform Architect
Bright Vision Technologies•Frisco, TX
•Remote
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled Data Platform Architect to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Eight or more years of experience in data engineering, with significant time in architecture roles.
- Deep expertise across at least two major data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift.
- Strong understanding of lakehouse architectures, modern table formats, and streaming systems.
- Hands-on experience with Spark, Flink, or Kafka at production scale.
- Strong data modeling expertise across dimensional, normalized, and data-vault patterns.
- Experience implementing governance, lineage, and catalog capabilities.
- Solid grasp of cloud platforms, networking, identity, and cost optimization.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Track record of leading large data platform initiatives across teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with data mesh or data product architectures.
- Familiarity with semantic layers such as dbt Semantic Layer, Cube, or LookML.
- Exposure to regulated industries with strict data residency or audit requirements.
- Cloud or platform certifications (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Public talks or writing on data architecture.
Responsibilities
- Define the target-state architecture of the enterprise data platform, including ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption layers.
- Establish standards for data modeling, schema evolution, partitioning, file formats, and storage organization.
- Architect lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming patterns leveraging technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi.
- Design end-to-end data pipelines that balance latency, cost, reliability, and maintainability across batch and streaming workloads.
- Lead the integration of governance, lineage, and catalog tools such as Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Unity Catalog, or DataHub.
- Define security architecture including row- and column-level controls, masking, encryption, and identity-aware access patterns.
- Partner with ML, BI, and product teams to ensure platform capabilities align with downstream consumption needs.
- Establish data contract and data product principles to drive ownership, quality, and decoupling between producers and consumers.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on pipeline and warehouse design proposals across teams.
- Drive cost optimization and capacity planning across the data platform estate.
- Design disaster recovery, multi-region, and high-availability strategies for critical data assets.
- Mentor data engineers and architects on platform standards and emerging best practices.
- Produce architecture artifacts including context diagrams, decision records, and reference patterns.
- Stay current with data platform research, vendor offerings, and open-source ecosystem developments.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
