Job Title: Senior Data Architect

Job Location: Montreal, QC (3 days/week onsite)

Job Duration: Long Term

Note: In-Person interview required

Our Challenge

We are seeking a Senior Architect to lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective up-to-date data platforms. This role will establish enterprise data architecture standards across lakehouse, data warehouse, integration, governance, and analytics environments while providing technical leadership to delivery teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Design modern data platforms using lakehouse, data warehouse, and Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architecture patterns.
- Develop dimensional, enterprise, logical, and physical data models.
- Define batch, CDC, streaming, near-real-time, API integration, and workflow orchestration patterns.
- Establish standards for pipeline dependencies, monitoring, error handling, recovery, and operational support.
- Design data access, authentication, authorization, IAM, encryption, masking, and least-privilege security patterns.
- Define governance operating models, including ownership, stewardship, lineage, cataloging, data quality, classification, and compliance.




- Develop data lifecycle, retention, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Optimize query performance, storage, compute utilization, scalability, reliability, and platform costs.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical decisions, roadmaps, and solution documentation.
- Collaborate with engineering, security, infrastructure, analytics, business, and application teams.
- Mentor technical teams and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards.

Skills:

- 7+ years experience in data architecture, data engineering, enterprise architecture, or a related discipline.
- Must have hands on experience with AWS, and Google Cloud.
- Proven experience designing modern lakehouse and data warehouse platforms.
- Strong knowledge of dimensional and enterprise data modeling.
- Experience with batch processing, CDC, streaming, APIs, and workflow orchestration.
- Strong understanding of data security, IAM, governance, privacy, and compliance.
- Experience with technologies such as BigQuery and AirFlow is an advantage.

📌 Senior Data Architect (Montreal)
🏢 Apptad
📍 Montreal