Hitachi America

Data Architect-68464

Hitachi America$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development
  • 5+ years leading data engineering initiatives with a focus on enterprise-scale solutions
  • Proven expertise in designing and owning enterprise data architecture
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
  • Strong understanding of AWS cloud services and modern data platforms

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain enterprise data architecture with various modeling techniques
  • Architect scalable cloud data platforms, warehouses, and lakehouse solutions
  • Lead ETL/ELT solutions for batch processing and real-time data integration
  • Design data solutions for BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting needs
  • Translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures with stakeholders
  • Establish architecture patterns and standards for data processes
  • Ensure high performance, reliability, and security of data platforms

Benefits

  • Opportunities for technical leadership and mentorship
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including AI/ML experts
  • Engagement with emerging technologies and architecture improvements
  • Focus on modern cloud, data ecosystem, and engineering best practices
Full Job Description

Function

Cloud & Data Engineering

Job description

Job Title: Senior Data Architect / Enterprise Data Architect

Meet Our Team

Join our Data & Analytics organization, where we design and modernize enterprise-scale data platforms that power business intelligence, advanced analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise reporting.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, solution architects, data engineers, and AI/ML teams to establish scalable data architectures and modern cloud-based data ecosystems. The team focuses on building secure, reliable, high-performance data platforms using modern cloud, Lakehouse, streaming, and data engineering technologies.

What You’ll Be Doing
  • Define and maintain enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
  • Architect scalable cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse solutions.
  • Lead architecture and implementation of ETL/ELT, batch processing, streaming, and real-time data integration solutions.
  • Design enterprise data solutions supporting BI, analytics, AI/ML, and reporting initiatives.
  • Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
  • Establish architecture patterns and standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, integration, and consumption.
  • Design distributed, scalable, highly available, and high-performance data architectures.
  • Ensure data platforms meet requirements for performance, reliability, security, monitoring, automation, and availability.
  • Provide technical leadership to data engineering teams and guide implementation of enterprise data solutions.
  • Support event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, and modern data integration patterns.
  • Drive engineering best practices across Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platforms, tools, and architecture improvements to modernize the enterprise data ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with AI/ML and analytics teams to enable data consumption for advanced analytics and AI use cases.
What You’ll Bring to the Team
Experience
  • 10+ years of experience across data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platform development.
  • 5+ years leading data engineering initiatives and delivering enterprise-scale data solutions.
  • Proven experience designing and owning enterprise data architecture, not just developing individual pipelines.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
Core Data Architecture
  • Strong expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
  • Deep knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, Data Lakes, and Lakehouse architectures.
  • Experience designing distributed, scalable, high-performance data platforms.
  • Strong understanding of batch, streaming, and event-driven data processing.
Cloud & Data Platforms
  • Strong experience with AWS.
  • Experience with AWS data services including S3, EMR, Glue, and Redshift.
  • Strong experience with Snowflake or comparable modern cloud data platforms.
Data Engineering

Hands-on/architecture experience with:

Spark | Kafka | Airflow | Talend | dbt | Python | SQL

Databases

Experience across relational and NoSQL platforms such as:

SQL Server | PostgreSQL | Amazon Aurora | DynamoDB

Architecture & Integration

Strong understanding of:

Data Lake/Lakehouse | Event-Driven Architecture | Microservices | REST APIs | Data Modeling

DevOps

Experience with:

Kubernetes | Docker | Git | CI/CD | Infrastructure as Code

Strong understanding of Agile delivery, DevOps, automation, monitoring, and operational best practices is expected.

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About Hitachi America

Hitachi America is a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., a Japanese multinational conglomerate. They provide a wide range of products and services, including information technology, power systems, and social infrastructure. They work with clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, transportation, and finance. They are committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and have implemented various initiatives to reduce their environmental impact.
Learn more about Hitachi America
Size
368,247 employees
Industry
Founded
1959
NASDAQ

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