Data Architect - Plano,Texas

Job Overview

Client Domain:

Information technology (IT)

Status:
Active

Experience:

8 - 12 Years

• 8+ years in data architecture/engineering with 3+ years architecting on AWS.
• Proven design of S3 based data lakes with robust partitioning, lifecycle policies, and metadata/catalog strategy.
• Hands on experience with Kafka (topic design, schema evolution, consumer groups, throughput/latency tuning).
• Practical Mule Soft integration design (API led connectivity, RAML/OAS, policies, governance).
• Production experience with Amazon EKS for data/streaming microservices and connectors.
• Strong SQL and performance tuning with Athena; expertise selecting file formats/partitioning for cost/perf.
• Data warehousing on Snowflake (ELT, clustering, resource monitors, security) and delivering analytics via Tableau.
• Mastery of data modeling (3NF, dimensional/star, data vault), data contracts, and event modeling.
• Solid foundations in security, IAM/KMS, networking for data platforms, and cost management.

• Experience with schema registries, stream processing frameworks, and change data capture.
• Background in data governance (catalog/lineage), metadata automation, and compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with IaC and Dev Ops practices for data (pipeline CI/CD, environment promotion, Git Ops).
• Prior work enabling self-service analytics and establishing an enterprise semantic layer.