Vice President / Director Senior Data Architect (NYC)

Role Summary

We are hiring a Senior Data Architect at the VP/Director level to design, optimize, and govern enterprise data solutions across a highly dynamic financial ecosystem. This role requires a strong foundation in modern data architecture, cloud data platforms, and strategic solution design.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise-wide data solutions and frameworks supporting analytics, regulatory reporting, and business intelligence.
• Define, implement, and enforce data architecture standards, governance, and best practices.
• Oversee data modeling, metadata management, lineage, and master data frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality data solutions.
• Drive architectural modernization initiatives (cloud migration, lakehouse, real-time pipelines).

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, and enterprise data platforms.
• Strong expertise with Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop ecosystem, Python, SQL.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP cloud data architecture.
  
• Proven track record designing data lakes, warehouses, streaming pipelines, and data governance frameworks.
  
• Financial industry experience preferred.
  
• Demonstrated senior-level leadership and communication skills.
  
• High-level English proficiency is mandatory.