Lead Architect, Enterprise Data
Senior hands-on architect role at an IT consulting firm: owns end-to-end enterprise data solution architecture for client engagements from design through build, cutover, and troubleshooting, using platforms like AWS, Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake, while mentoring consultants and advising client executives.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years in enterprise IT, including substantial hands-on implementation experience, not just managing people who did it
- Deep, current expertise in enterprise data platform technologies such as AWS and/or Azure storage, data, and analytics offerings; Databricks; Snowflake
- Architectures you designed and personally helped build running in production today
- Ability to work directly in the environment — CLI, console, infrastructure as code, scripting, log analysis, data migration/transformation pipelines, data protection
- Track record influencing senior client stakeholders without formal authority
- Strong written communication, including creating and delivering clear PowerPoint presentations
- Willingness to travel to client sites as engagements require
- Curiosity and eagerness to learn and master new technologies outside current areas of expertise
Nice to have
- Certifications reflecting expertise gained through direct, real-world experience
- Blended experience across enterprise IT client organizations, technology manufacturers, and technology solution/service providers
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related field
Full description
The Lead Architect is our most senior technical practitioner. This role is defined by two things above all else: deep technical expertise and a hands-on approach.
About Windval
Windval Technology Solutions LLC is a modern advisory consulting firm operating at the intersection of management consulting and technology expertise - spanning infrastructure, data, security, and artificial intelligence. Extensive experience and depth of technical knowledge support exceptional technical delivery services that enable IT organizations to optimize existing investments, integrate and operationalize new technologies, and deliver new service capabilities that transform their business. The firm and our specialist teams are dedicated to client success and producing positive outcomes - enabling IT leaders, strengthening teams, and driving measurable progress in the objectives that matter most.
At Windval you’ll find that we value the experience of our team and encourage free sharing of knowledge, opinions, and recommendations. Collaboration and communication are paramount in our work, and we strive to deliver fresh insights and effective solutions for our clients. Windval is a team of life-long learners who maintain a passion for resolving complex problems for our clients.
We run engagements on a simple principle: architects own more than just designs, they stay involved and ensure that solutions are implemented and actually work. We don't hand a deck to an implementation team and leave. That principle is what this role exists to carry.
The Role
The Lead Architect is our most senior technical practitioner. This role is defined by two things above all else: deep technical expertise and a hands-on approach. Everything else about the job follows from those two core attributes.
Deep technical expertise means you can go several layers below the diagram. You thoroughly understand the data model. You know how to assemble data to support new AI development initiatives. You know how the technology stack works, how it gets built and deployed in the CI/CD workflow, the measures employed to create redundancy and high availability, the mechanics of the data flow pipeline, how the identity model actually resolves, and are an expert at troubleshooting issues or surprise failures.. You've been in the trenches implementing the technology, not just creating specs on a whiteboard. When a client's senior engineer pushes back on your design, you can meet them at their level and either defend it or change it on the merits.
Hands-on means you stay in the environment. You're in the console, in the config, in the migration runbook, on the cutover bridge when it matters. You don't require a team between you and the work in order to be effective.
Client presence, proposal work, and mentoring are all part of this role. We are seeking architects who can earn the respect of engineers first and foremost. That credibility quickly earns the confidence of client executives as well.