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About the Role
We are seeking a senior Solutions Architect to own the technical architecture and solution development for modern data platforms. This role involves designing, validating, and delivering enterprise data management solutions with an emphasis on open, governed, compliant, interoperable, and AI-ready data architectures.
Responsibilities
- Design and validate end-to-end data management architectures combining object storage, open table formats, query engines, governance services, compliance controls, and data pipeline technologies.
- Develop reference architectures for data lakehouse platforms using technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, and S3-compatible storage.
- Build and document technical patterns for data preparation, ETL, ELT, batch processing, and streaming pipelines supporting production-grade customer deployments.
- Define architectural guidance for metadata catalogs, data lineage, data quality, data classification, PII discovery, policy enforcement, auditability, retention, and compliance operating models.
- Ensure solution architectures account for compliance requirements early in the design process, including privacy, security, regulatory alignment, data residency, retention, classification, and access governance.
- Validate interoperability between Hitachi platforms and modern data ecosystem components, including catalog services, query engines, data engineering tools, and AI data services.
- Create customer-facing solution briefs, design guides, technical white papers, demos, and best-practice documentation.
- Partner with product management, engineering, field teams, and strategic customers to translate business and technical requirements into repeatable solution architectures.
- Support proof-of-concept activities, technical workshops, and executive-level solution discussions with customers and partners.
- Evaluate emerging technologies in open table formats, data lakehouse architectures, federated query, AI data management, governance frameworks, and compliance-aware data management practices.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for modern data management, helping position Hitachi platforms as trusted foundations for governed, compliant analytics and AI workloads.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, data engineering, enterprise storage, analytics platforms, or related technical roles.
- Proven experience designing production data platforms, not simply consuming data services or operating prebuilt environments.
- Demonstrated ability to architect data platforms with compliance in mind, including privacy, retention, audit, classification, policy enforcement, and regulatory considerations.
- Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear customer-facing guidance, reference architectures, and executive-ready solution narratives.
- Hands-on experience validating architectures in lab, proof-of-concept, or customer deployment environments.
- Ability to work across engineering, product, field, partner, and customer teams to drive solution development from concept through validation and enablement.
Skills
- Modern Data Platforms
- Data lakes
- Data lakehouse architectures
- Object storage architectures
- S3-compatible storage patterns
- Apache Iceberg
- Parquet
- Open table formats
- Metadata management
- Schema evolution
- Transactional consistency
- Time travel
- Multi-engine access
- Interoperability
- Metadata catalogs
- Data governance
- Policy enforcement
- Compliance workflows
- Query engine integration
- Data Engineering
- ETL
- ELT
- Batch processing
- Data preparation architectures
- Apache Spark
- Kafka
- Flink
- Airflow
- Pentaho PDI
- Data pipelines
- Streaming data
- Data Governance
- Cataloging
- Data lineage
- Data quality
- Data classification
- PII discovery
- Policy enforcement
- Auditability
- Retention
- Compliance support
- Collibra
- Alation
- Microsoft Purview
- Informatica
- DataHub
- OpenMetadata
- Governance platforms
- Governance and compliance operating models
- Stewardship
- Ownership
- Policy definition
- Classification
- Access controls
- Audit readiness
- Retention policies
- Compliance workflows
- AI Data Foundation Experience
- AI
- Generative AI
- Analytics
- RAG pipelines
- Vector embeddings
- Semantic metadata
- Metadata enrichment
- AI governance
- Data preparation for AI
- Vector database concepts
- Trust
- Explainability
- Operational readiness for AI
- Lakehouse Query Engines
- Federation
- Trino
- Presto
- Starburst
- Athena
- Snowflake
- Databricks SQL
- Dremio
- Denodo
- Zetaris-like federation platforms
- Data federation
- Data virtualization
- Predicate pushdown
- Query optimization
- Catalog integration
- Governance-aware query access
- Compliance-aware data access controls
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $135K to $150k
- $157K to $173K
Benefits
- Industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing.
- Flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent).
- A sense of belonging, autonomy, freedom, and ownership.
About the Company
- We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
- We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society.
- Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
- We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.