[Hiring] Solutions Architect - Modern Data Management Platforms @Hitachi

Role Description

We are seeking a senior Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience designing, validating, and delivering enterprise data management solutions. This role will own the technical architecture and solution development for modern data platforms that span:

• Open table formats, object storage, lakehouse architectures
• Data governance, compliance-aware architecture
• Streaming data pipelines, metadata services
• Federated query environments, AI-ready data foundations

The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect who can move fluidly between strategy, architecture, validation, and customer-facing guidance.

Core Mission

• Own the technical validation, architecture, and solution development of modern data management platforms for Hitachi environments.
• Emphasis on open, governed, compliant, interoperable, and AI-ready data architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and validate end-to-end data management architectures.
• Develop reference architectures for data lakehouse platforms.
• Build and document technical patterns for data preparation, ETL, ELT, batch processing, and streaming pipelines.
• Define architectural guidance for metadata catalogs, data lineage, data quality, and compliance operating models.
• Ensure solution architectures account for compliance requirements early in the design process.
• Validate interoperability between Hitachi platforms and modern data ecosystem components.
• Create customer-facing solution briefs, design guides, and best-practice documentation.
• Partner with product management, engineering, field teams, and strategic customers.
• Support proof-of-concept activities and technical workshops.
• Evaluate emerging technologies in data management practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for modern data management.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, data engineering, or related technical roles.
• Proven experience designing production data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to architect data platforms with compliance in mind.
• Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear guidance.
• Hands-on experience validating architectures in lab or customer deployment environments.
• Ability to work across various teams to drive solution development.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of data lakes, data lakehouse architectures, and object storage architectures.
• Strong knowledge of Apache Iceberg, Parquet, and open table format concepts.
• Hands-on experience building ETL, ELT, and data preparation architectures.
• Strong experience with cataloging, metadata management, and data governance.
• Experience supporting data foundations for AI and analytics.
• Experience with modern lakehouse or federated query engines.

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits, support, and services for holistic health and wellbeing.
• Flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent).
• A culture that fosters innovation through diverse perspectives.
• Commitment to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect.

Company Description

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers can focus on achieving incredible outcomes with data.

We’re a global team of innovators, harnessing engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges.