What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Architect-68464 position at Hitachi Digital Services?
Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Data Architect / Enterprise Data Architect
Meet Our Team
Join our Data & Analytics organization, where we design and modernize enterprise-scale data platforms that power business intelligence, advanced analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise reporting.
You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, solution architects, data engineers, and AI/ML teams to establish scalable data architectures and modern cloud-based data ecosystems. The team focuses on building secure, reliable, high-performance data platforms using modern cloud, Lakehouse, streaming, and data engineering technologies.
What You’ll Be Doing
Experience
Hands-on/architecture Experience With
Spark | Kafka | Airflow | Talend | dbt | Python | SQL
Databases
Experience Across Relational And NoSQL Platforms Such As
SQL Server | PostgreSQL | Amazon Aurora | DynamoDB
Architecture & Integration
Strong Understanding Of
Data Lake/Lakehouse | Event-Driven Architecture | Microservices | REST APIs | Data Modeling
DevOps
Experience With
Kubernetes | Docker | Git | CI/CD | Infrastructure as Code
Strong understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps, automation, monitoring, and operational best practices is expected.
About Us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Data Architect / Enterprise Data Architect
Meet Our Team
Join our Data & Analytics organization, where we design and modernize enterprise-scale data platforms that power business intelligence, advanced analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise reporting.
You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, solution architects, data engineers, and AI/ML teams to establish scalable data architectures and modern cloud-based data ecosystems. The team focuses on building secure, reliable, high-performance data platforms using modern cloud, Lakehouse, streaming, and data engineering technologies.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Define and maintain enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Architect scalable cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions.
- Lead architecture and implementation of ETL/ELT, batch processing, streaming, and real-time data integration solutions.
- Design enterprise data solutions supporting BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting initiatives.
- Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
- Establish architecture patterns and standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, integration, and consumption.
- Design distributed, scalable, highly available, and high-performance data architectures.
- Ensure data platforms meet requirements for performance, reliability, security, monitoring, automation, and availability.
- Provide technical leadership to data engineering teams and guide implementation of enterprise data solutions.
- Support event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and modern data integration patterns.
- Drive engineering best practices across Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platforms, tools, and architecture improvements to modernize the enterprise data ecosystem.
- Collaborate with AI/ML and analytics teams to enable data consumption for advanced analytics and AI use cases.
Experience
- 10 years of experience across data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development.
- 5 years leading data engineering initiatives and delivering enterprise-scale data solutions.
- Proven experience designing and owning enterprise data architecture, not just developing individual pipelines.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Strong expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
- Deep knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, Data Lakes, and Lakehouse architectures.
- Experience designing distributed, scalable, high-performance data platforms.
- Strong understanding of batch, streaming, and event-driven data processing.
- Strong experience with AWS.
- Experience with AWS data services including S3, EMR, Glue, and Redshift.
- Strong experience with Snowflake or comparable modern cloud data platforms.
Hands-on/architecture Experience With
Spark | Kafka | Airflow | Talend | dbt | Python | SQL
Databases
Experience Across Relational And NoSQL Platforms Such As
SQL Server | PostgreSQL | Amazon Aurora | DynamoDB
Architecture & Integration
Strong Understanding Of
Data Lake/Lakehouse | Event-Driven Architecture | Microservices | REST APIs | Data Modeling
DevOps
Experience With
Kubernetes | Docker | Git | CI/CD | Infrastructure as Code
Strong understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps, automation, monitoring, and operational best practices is expected.
About Us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.