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Senior Data Architect

Tranzeal Incorporated
Oakland, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 9/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/18/2026

Senior Data Architect


Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to design scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native data solutions. This role will partner with business and IT leadership to translate business needs into enterprise data architectures and technology roadmaps.


Key Responsibilities

  • Design and architect end-to-end data platforms, including ingestion, ETL/ELT, storage, integration, analytics, and data consumption.
  • Define scalable cloud, lakehouse, data warehouse, and data lake architectures.
  • Establish standards for data integration, interoperability, governance, security, and data sharing.
  • Design data solutions supporting AI/ML, Generative AI, MCP, and advanced analytics.
  • Evaluate and recommend data technologies and platforms.
  • Provide architecture governance, design reviews, POCs, and technology assessments.
  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, Application Development, vendors, and business teams.
  • Identify architectural risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
  • Mentor architects and engineers and promote data architecture best practices.


Required Qualifications

  • 10 years of modern cloud data architecture experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Strong experience with Snowflake, Matillion, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Tableau.
  • Proven experience with data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouse architectures, data integration, and analytics platforms.
  • Strong Azure/cloud-native architecture experience; hybrid or multi-cloud experience is a plus.
  • Knowledge of ETL/ELT, APIs, microservices, data governance, security, privacy, quality, and compliance.
  • Experience translating business requirements into scalable data solutions.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Experience architecting data platforms for AI/ML and Generative AI use cases.


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