Senior Data Architect

Job Title: Senior Data Architect
Location: Windsor, CT (5 Days from office)
Duration: 12 Months contract
 
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise data strategy, data platform modernization, and solution design. This role works directly with business, architecture, and engineering teams to define scalable data architectures aligned to organizational priorities.
 
Key Responsibilities:
Lead enterprise data architecture and solution design
Partner with business stakeholders to define data strategy and roadmap
Build conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support analytics
Drive cloud adoption and modernization initiatives
Establish data governance, lineage, and master data practices
Oversee integration design and data ingestion strategy
Guide data engineering teams and enforce standards
Conduct architecture reviews and stakeholder workshops
Evaluate new technologies and develop reference architectures
Ensure alignment with enterprise security and compliance standards
 
Required Skills & Experience:
10+ years in data architecture and engineering
Strong experience with cloud (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform)
Deep data modeling & warehousing experience
Experience working directly with business teams
Strong MDM, governance, and metadata experience
Hands on experience with Spark, Databricks, and Python/SQL
Snowflake expertise
 
Preferred Skills:
Experience with BigQuery/Redshift
Event driven and streaming architecture knowledge
 
Education:
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
 
Soft Skills:
Excellent business communication & collaboration
Leadership and stakeholder management
Strategic thinker with strong ownership