CareerPlan

Architect, Technology I

North Chicago, IL, usFull-time2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10

Core

Owns the architecture of the enterprise cloud data platform and leads a team of developers and a large offshore team to set technical direction, standards, and roadmaps.

Role type

Senior IC Enterprise Cloud Data Architect

Builds

Enterprise cloud data platforms, data products, and reusable platform services

Domain

Cloud Data Engineering / Big Data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Enterprise-scale cloud big data platforms, Lakehouse architecture, data mesh, data fabric, event-driven architectures, batch and real-time processing, Apache Iceberg/Delta Lake/Hudi, data quality, observability, lineage, metadata management, data governance, data contracts, data security, privacy, IAM, encryption, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect

Preferred skills

Cloudera Data Platform, pharmaceutical industry, international development teams, graph databases, GraphQL

Technologies

Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of developers and direct a large offshore team, setting priorities and coordinating handoffs across time zones. Review design artifacts and enforce standards through peer reviews and architecture principles. Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and security teams on implementation. Define and evolve data platform architecture including Lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric patterns. Establish data contracts, data quality, observability, lineage, and metadata practices. Design for scalability, reliability, performance, disaster recovery, security, and cost optimization.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC