Senior Data Architect – Ex Apple exp

Title: Senior Data Architect – Apple 

Location: Austin, TX/Sunnyvale, CA

Position: Contract

JD:

Ex Apple mandatory.

Hands-on engineer who embeds directly with enterprise customers to deploy, customize, and scale AI-powered applications. Candidate should be able to build production-grade backend services in Go and modern UIs in React, while integrating GenAI capabilities into real customer environments. Candidate should be equally comfortable in a customer meeting and a code editor.

 Key Responsibilities

 7+ years of experience as a Data Architect 4+ Ex Apple mandatory.

• Architect scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data.

• Collaborate with Apple business stakeholders, engineering teams, and solution architects to gather requirements and define target-state architecture.

• Enable data analytics, AI/ML, reporting, and dashboarding solutions.

Prior to Apple experience is mandatory.

Strong requirements gathering and stakeholder management skills.

Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Strong SQL/data analysis skills.

Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar tools.

Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Ability to work with both business and technical teams.