HeartCentrix Solutions · 17 hours ago
Data Architect
DFW Metroplex
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expHeartCentrix Solutions is seeking a Data Architect to provide strategic advisory and governance for enterprise data initiatives. The role involves developing architecture standards, reviewing designs, and mentoring teams to enhance architectural maturity while ensuring compliance and security across data solutions.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Marcus Rice
Responsibilities
Provide strategic advisory and governance for enterprise data initiatives by developing and enforcing architecture standards, patterns, and best practices aligned with organizational objectives
Participate in the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to review and approve data architecture designs across platforms and business domains
Evaluate end-to-end data lifecycle architectures—including ingestion, storage, processing, modeling, and consumption—for scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness
Identify architectural risks, gaps, and technical debt, and recommend mitigation strategies
Guide technology selection and trade-off decisions to ensure optimal solutions for business needs
Mentor engineering and analytics teams to improve architectural maturity and quality
Support solution decisions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid ecosystems, ensuring interoperability and compliance
Deliver measurable outcomes, such as: Consistent delivery of high-quality, enterprise-grade data architectures
Reduction of risk and technical debt through effective governance and oversight
Enhanced compliance and security alignment across all data solutions
Accelerated delivery enabled by standardized patterns and clear architectural guidelines
Qualification
Required
Strong business acumen with the ability to translate complex data requirements into strategic architecture solutions across multiple domains
Proven leadership, communication, and advisory capabilities with a track record of influencing enterprise-level technology decisions and driving architectural standards
10+ years of experience in data architecture, solution architecture, or similar senior technical roles
Deep expertise in modern data architectures such as data lakehouse, data warehouse, operational data stores, and streaming/event-driven patterns
Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, leveraging tools like Erwin to deliver scalable, enterprise-grade data models
Experience designing or advising on AI/ML and IoT architectures, ensuring seamless integration into enterprise data ecosystems
Extensive experience in architecture governance, including conducting design reviews and ensuring compliance with enterprise standards in large-scale environments
Strong knowledge of data security principles – RBAC, ABAC, encryption, tokenization
Comprehensive technical proficiency across cloud platforms, data engineering, security, observability, databases, and BI tools, including: Cloud Platforms: AWS (S3, Glue, Redshift, EMR, IAM, Lake Formation); GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub)
Data Engineering & Analytics: Databricks (Delta Lake, SQL, ML, Unity Catalog, Workflows)
Data Virtualization & Security: Denodo, Protegrity
Observability & Operations: Datadog, ServiceNow
Databases: Enterprise RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2); Cloud data stores (Snowflake, DynamoDB, BigQuery)
BI Tools: Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI
Expert ability to assess architectural trade-offs, articulate design rationale, and align decisions with business objectives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
Proven experience architecting and managing solutions in multi-cloud or hybrid environments, ensuring interoperability and performance at scale
Demonstrated success leading legacy system modernization programs and executing complex cloud migration strategies
Proven ability to design and implement compliant data architectures for regulated industries, ensuring security and governance standards
Extensive experience mentoring and developing architects and engineering teams to elevate architectural maturity and best practices across the organization
Experience delivering data architecture solutions in automotive or manufacturing domains, with an understanding of industry-specific data challenges
Company
HeartCentrix Solutions
HeartCentrix Solutions is a premier IT staffing and workforce solutions provider that delivers technically vetted, culturally aligned talent to enterprise teams, high-growth startups, and consulting firms.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Aaron Jenkins
Founder
Joey Ramos
Partner & Director of Business Intelligence
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