What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Architect position at Apex Systems?
Job#: 3056238
Job Description:
Senior Data Architect
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Onsite)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Architect to lead the design, evolution, and modernization of enterprise data platforms and architectures for Global Regulatory Reporting. This role is responsible for defining strategic architecture, establishing technology standards, and driving scalable solutions across on-premise and cloud ecosystems. The Senior Architect will partner with business leaders, technology teams, data engineers, and governance organizations to ensure compliance with global enterprise strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Experience: 12 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or related technology roles. 7 years of experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms. Proven experience architecting large-scale solutions utilizing Hadoop, Oracle, and cloud technologies. Experience leading enterprise modernization and migration initiatives.
Technical Skills:
This role requires a hybrid schedule with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at or . Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.
UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.
Job Description:
Senior Data Architect
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Onsite)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Architect to lead the design, evolution, and modernization of enterprise data platforms and architectures for Global Regulatory Reporting. This role is responsible for defining strategic architecture, establishing technology standards, and driving scalable solutions across on-premise and cloud ecosystems. The Senior Architect will partner with business leaders, technology teams, data engineers, and governance organizations to ensure compliance with global enterprise strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap aligned with business and technology strategies.
- Establish and ensure adherence to architectural standards, principles, and best practices.
- Design scalable architectures for data ingestion, processing, storage, integration, and consumption.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve efficiency and business outcomes.
- Design migration and modernization initiatives involving legacy platforms, Oracle databases, and Hadoop ecosystems.
- Design and optimize enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and analytical platforms.
- Provide strategic direction for cloud adoption and hybrid architectures.
- Develop long-term strategies for platform consolidation and cost optimization.
- Promote reusable frameworks and standardized integration patterns.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement scalable data pipelines.
- Ensure data architectures comply with regulatory, risk, privacy, and security requirements.
- Partner with data governance organizations to define metadata, lineage, and data quality standards.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders.
Experience: 12 years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or related technology roles. 7 years of experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms. Proven experience architecting large-scale solutions utilizing Hadoop, Oracle, and cloud technologies. Experience leading enterprise modernization and migration initiatives.
Technical Skills:
- Hadoop Ecosystem (Spark, Hive, HDFS, Kafka)
- Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
- Oracle, SQL Server
- AWS, Cloud-native data services, Containerization technologies
- ETL/ELT frameworks, Data orchestration tools, API-based integrations
- SQL, Python, Scala or Java, Shell scripting
- Experience with data governance platforms such as Collibra.
- Experience with modern query engines such as Starburst or Trino.
- Financial Services, Regulatory Reporting, or Banking experience.
- Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Data Analytics).
- TOGAF or comparable architecture certifications.
This role requires a hybrid schedule with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at or . Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.
UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.
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