Data Architect/ Solution Architect

About the role

Data Architect/Solution Architect position for a 2‑year contract, requiring onsite work 5 days per week in Peoria, IL. The role focuses on designing and delivering enterprise data platforms, leading onshore/offshore teams, driving AI‑enabled innovation, and presenting technical plans to executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design Architectures: Build secure, scalable data solutions on AWS and Snowflake
• Lead Teams: Lead Onshore & Offshore teams to create the solution
• Drive Innovation: Apply AI awareness to increase productivity and develop AI solutions
• Lead Readouts: Ability to present technical plans and business value to executive stakeholders clearly
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for high-level leadership readouts

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 15+ years of proven experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or enterprise architecture roles.

Skills

• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Deep expertise in IAM, VPC networking, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, and EMR
• Data Warehousing (Snowflake): Mastery of Snowpipe, streams, tasks, dynamic tables, data sharing, and storage optimization
• Development & Scripting (Python): Advanced skills in PySpark, Pandas, NumPy, and building optimized, object-oriented data frameworks
• DevOps & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• AI & Machine Learning Awareness: Awareness of vector databases, LLM integration, prompt engineering, and MLOps pipelines (e.g., SageMaker)
• Data Governance & Security: Proven ability to implement role-based access control (RBAC), data masking, and encryption at rest/in transit