Top Data Architect Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads the design and modernization of scalable data architecture for economic data platforms, including massive time-series datasets, archival documents, and research publications. Responsibilities include data modeling, metadata and governance design, storage and processing architecture, indexing, discoverability, security, lifecycle management, and API data access optimization. Partners with application architecture and cross-functional teams to deliver highly available, secure, public-facing data platforms supporting analytics and research.

Lead enterprise data architecture across warehouses, data lakes, downstream applications, and AI workloads. Design data models, Medallion Architecture, ELT standards, semantic layers, APIs, access controls, and reusable datasets. Partner with business and BI teams to drive adoption, conduct architecture reviews, establish platform standards, and mentor data and analytics engineers. The role requires deep Snowflake, dbt, data modeling, pipeline, and semantic-layer expertise, with experience in AI data patterns and cloud infrastructure preferred.

Designs and oversees enterprise data architectures spanning databases, warehouses, lakes, integrations, and cloud environments. Translates business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions; establishes data modeling, governance, quality, metadata, and security practices; guides engineers and analysts; optimizes infrastructure; and maintains architecture documentation. Requires extensive Databricks, data engineering, big data, cloud, and stakeholder leadership experience.

Define enterprise data architecture strategy and roadmaps; design secure, scalable data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, integrations, and cloud platforms. Lead data modeling, governance, metadata, quality, master data management, security, and compliance initiatives. Establish architecture standards, review designs, evaluate technologies, and guide data modernization and transformation programs. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, executive stakeholder engagement, and support for proposals and estimations.

Leads the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GCP and Databricks data lakehouse platforms. Designs real-time and batch pipelines, data models, governance, cataloging, security, and performance optimization. Advises clients, translates business requirements into technical solutions, leads project teams, mentors engineers, reviews architectures, and balances strategic planning with hands-on proof-of-concept and troubleshooting work.

Design and govern end-to-end data architecture for an integrated supply-chain e-commerce platform: create data models, build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure GDPR-compliant data governance, enable real-time analytics, optimize databases, plan retention/archival, and prepare data for LLM fine-tuning and RAG use cases.

Designs and maintains enterprise data architecture, including data lakes, warehouses, integrations, migrations, orchestration, and data management protocols. Partners with architects, DBAs, BI teams, product leaders, and business stakeholders to support analytics and data science. Requires deep experience with cloud data environments, Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, Spark, Hadoop, PySpark, SparkSQL, security protocols, and enterprise data integrations.

Designs and leads scalable, secure, and cost-efficient Snowflake data platforms supporting enterprise analytics, operational reporting, and generative AI applications. Serves as the technical authority for data architecture, modeling, lakehouse design, Snowflake services, dbt transformation frameworks, and Python/Snowpark development. Provides hands-on architectural leadership while influencing executive-level technology strategy.

Own university data integrations from source discovery through validated, signed-off feeds. Build SQL queries and scheduled extracts, model data, support partner upgrades and migrations, translate institutional policies into accurate data feeds, and improve monitoring, documentation, and reusable integration patterns. Collaborate with registrars and database administrators while supporting a named set of university partners. The role requires deep experience with student information systems, including PeopleSoft, and occasional travel for partner onsite engagements.

Lead design and delivery of scalable data infrastructure and pipelines for PwC Tax practice. Oversee data integration, transformation, validation, security, and compliance; drive innovation, client relationships, business development, mentorship, and strategic direction across multiple projects.

Designs and implements the data architecture supporting engineering technology, analytics, automation, and AI. Assesses current systems, defines target architecture and governance, develops data models and ETL/ELT pipelines, integrates engineering platforms, and establishes metadata, lineage, stewardship, access, and quality standards. Partners with engineering and Digital Engineering teams to deliver reusable data assets, dashboards, and analytics solutions while coordinating data protection, platform evaluations, roadmaps, and stakeholder communication.

Design and execute enterprise data architecture strategy, including logical, physical, operational, and analytical data models. Establish data management, governance, quality, privacy, and security standards while supporting scalable cloud data platforms. Collaborate with product owners, architects, engineers, data scientists, and business teams to translate requirements into data solutions. Lead modernization, legacy simplification, performance optimization, integration, streaming, and organizational change initiatives across insurance and financial services data environments.

Own data architecture and infrastructure decisions, design and optimize data models, ETL workflows, pipelines, and data lakes, and improve scalability and reliability. Monitor workflows, create automated tests and alerts, resolve incidents, conduct root cause analysis, ensure data quality, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors. Serve as a technical expert, escalation point, and mentor for the data solutions team.

Lead and own end-to-end delivery of enterprise Data & AI programs, define data strategy and architecture (lakehouse/warehouse), drive modernization, governance, data quality, metadata/lineage, and AI adoption. Manage client relationships, account growth, program budgets, delivery teams, and stakeholder communications to ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes.

Design and deliver enterprise-scale data models and analytics-ready datasets in Snowflake; build reliable ELT/ETL pipelines (batch and near-real-time); enforce data quality, observability, and secure handling of PII; optimize performance and publish curated data to downstream systems while collaborating with product, operations, and engineering teams.

Design and own an event-driven data architecture that moves healthcare claims data through AWS and Snowflake into fraud, waste, and abuse alerts. Establish architecture standards, approve material changes, build complex pipeline components, and ensure scalability, reliability, and compliance with PII/PHI constraints. Collaborate with data science, compliance, technical, and investigative teams while supporting government review timelines. This is a hands-on principal role requiring strong Python, SQL, AWS, Snowflake, and production streaming pipeline experience.

Define target-state enterprise data architecture, reusable data-product and medallion patterns, domain ownership boundaries, and migration roadmaps for a complex financial-services environment. The role covers data mesh, lakehouse platforms, reference and master data, stored-procedure decomposition, governance, contracts, lineage, risk assessment, and architecture documentation using TOGAF and ArchiMate or C4 models.

Designs and supports scalable cloud data warehouses for CMS healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse analytics. Responsibilities include data modeling, healthcare interoperability, secure HIPAA-compliant governance, lineage, testing, CI/CD, automation, workflow scheduling, and technical architecture. The role integrates claims and healthcare domains using Snowflake and industry standards while collaborating with stakeholders, documenting solutions, and leading warehouse project delivery.

Lead enterprise data architecture across AWS and Databricks Lakehouse: design scalable data models, ensure governance and data quality, mentor teams, evaluate and adopt data technologies (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog), oversee large projects and deliverables, and incorporate generative AI to accelerate data modeling and delivery.

Designs and leads enterprise data architecture, including warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, data models, integration pipelines, governance, security, and analytics platforms. Partners with engineering, analytics, application, and business teams to create scalable cloud data ecosystems. Responsibilities include technology evaluation, migration and modernization strategy, architecture reviews, documentation, data quality, lineage, metadata, and technical mentorship.

Deliver customer-facing technical training in data engineering and AI through virtual and onsite sessions. Create tailored courses, projects, certifications, and assessments aligned with customer roles, tools, and business outcomes. Partner with Customer Success, Sales, Product, and Content teams to design blended learning paths, drive platform adoption, and improve measurable skills. Support diverse technical and non-technical audiences across time zones, with occasional onsite travel and success metrics tied to customer satisfaction, bookings, and professional services revenue.

Designs and implements AWS cloud data solutions for customer engagements, including data lakes, ingestion frameworks, orchestration, storage, governance, quality, cataloging, and serving layers. Provides technical and strategic cloud guidance, develops automation tools and reference architectures, supports technology roadmaps, and contributes to thought leadership through blogs and case studies. Requires customer-facing consulting experience and expertise architecting or operating AWS data and DevOps solutions.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements to design and optimize scalable cloud lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Provide architecture reviews, ETL/ELT pipeline design, governance and AI-ready data foundations, support services sales, and translate technical tradeoffs into actionable recommendations for engineering and executive stakeholders.

Lead pre-sales data engineering engagements to design and implement scalable lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Advise customers on data strategy, governance, pipelines, AI-ready foundations, migrations, and translate technical solutions into business outcomes while supporting sales and partner enablement.

Lead data architecture for NAVSUP OIS, including database design, data modeling, warehouse strategy, ETL/ELT pipelines, migration, security, retention, backup, recovery, and performance optimization. Coordinate cloud and containerized environments, guide data engineers and DBAs, and support modernization from Oracle to cloud and analytical platforms. The role also provides technical leadership, architecture planning, integration, risk assessment, and policy development for mission-critical systems.