Data Architect (AI)

Optomi, in partnership with a leading financial services company, is seeking a Data Architect to join their team! You will lead the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and governed architectures that support analytics, operational workloads, and AI-driven innovation. This role spans data platforms, integration, semantic modeling, AI foundations, and enterprise governance, enabling consistent, reusable capabilities across the organization.

This position is hybrid in the following cities: Jersey City, NJ, Tempe, AZ, or Tampa, FL.

Job Qualifications:

• 8\+ years of experience in data architecture, platform architecture, AI architecture or related fields
• Experience with modern platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms and integration solutions
• Strong expertise in data storage, processing, and integration architectures
• Experience with AWS
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable architectures

What the responsibilities are of the right candidate:

• Design scalable enterprise data platforms (lakehouse, data warehouse, streaming, ingestion layers)
• Define modern integration patterns: ETL / ELT, Change Data Capture (CDC), APIs and event-driven architectures
• Drive platform modernization, interoperability, and data movement strategies
• Architect AI-ready data foundations for analytics, machine learning, and generative AI
• Establish architecture standards, patterns, and reference models
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and governance processes