What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Architect position at Lumicity?
Staff Data Engineer / Data Architect (Contract)
Contract Length: 18-month engagement (extension highly likely)
Pay Rate: $110–$140/hour (W2 or C2C) NO THIRD PARTIES
About the Project
This is with a major Fortune 100 financial institution undergoing a large-scale data platform modernization and AI/ML enablement initiative.
This is a multi-phase, 18-month program involving the rebuild of core data pipelines, migration into a modern lakehouse architecture, and development of a unified data platform to support credit risk, fraud, real-time decisioning, and enterprise analytics.
We’re seeking a Staff-Level Data Architect to support this effort.
If you’ve architected or led programs at enterprise scale especially in regulated environments this is a great opportunity.
What You’ll Lead
- Architecting and delivering large-scale data solutions on Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake
- Designing and implementing Delta Lakehouse frameworks and governance models
- Leading the development of dbt transformation layers and establishing enterprise standards
- Building high-performance ELT/ETL pipelines with strong observability and cost controls
- Collaborating with risk, credit, fraud, and analytics teams on data needs for ML/AI models
- Supporting platform engineering teams with best practices, CI/CD for data, and automation
- Providing architectural guidance to engineering pods across multiple workstreams
Ideal Tech Stack
Core
- Python (scalable, production-grade)
- Advanced SQL optimization
- dbt (core cloud; experience defining architecture & standards)
Cloud / Platform
- Azure: Data Factory, Functions, Synapse, EventHub
- Databricks: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow
- Snowflake: Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, performance tuning
Preferred Experience
- Enterprise governance frameworks (Purview, Unity Catalog, Collibra)
- Streaming (Kafka/EventHub)
- Experience supporting real-time risk/fraud/credit decision systems
- Familiarity with model enablement for DS/ML teams
- Prior experience in large transformation programs (12 months)
Ideal Background
You’ve operated in environments similar to:
- Tier-1 banks
- Fortune 100 financial institutions
- Large consumer credit, fintech, or payments companies
And you bring:
- 7–12 years in data engineering or architecture
- Experience leading multi-team initiatives or platform migrations
- Ability to be hands-on while also driving architectural decisions
Pay Rate
$110–$140/hour, depending on experience and specific workstream alignment.
Salary : $110 - $140