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The Senior Data Architect will design and implement scalable data solutions using the latest and advanced technology and toolsets. This role offers the right candidate the rare opportunity to leverage their extensive background to design and architect scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native data solutions. The role will also be responsible for working closely with business partners and IT leadership to understand the organization's business requirements and work with the broader IT team to enable/build new capabilities in our data platform that will support the current needs and scale to accommodate future growth.
Responsibilities- Lead the design and architecture of end-to-end data solutions, translating business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing data architectures.
- Enable AI/ML-driven capabilities by designing data architectures that support scalable experimentation, feature engineering, and model deployment.
- Translate business strategy and requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions that support both operational and AI-driven use cases.
- Define target-state data architecture and blueprints, including data flows, integration patterns, storage strategies, and consumption layers.
- Establish standard architecture patterns for ingestion, transformation (ETL/ELT), data integration, and data sharing across platforms.
- Architect scalable data pipelines and workflows, optimizing for performance, cost, and reliability.
- Ensure design alignment with cloud-native principles, leveraging modern data platforms for elasticity, resilience, and modularity.
- Incorporate data governance, security, and privacy by design, including access controls, masking, lineage, and compliance requirements.
- Design for interoperability and integration, enabling seamless data exchange across applications, domains, and external systems.
- Lead evaluation and selection of data management technologies in partnership with IT and business stakeholders, ensuring seamless ecosystem integration.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Application Development teams to define roadmaps, capabilities, and solution strategies.
- Provide architectural oversight for cloud-native data platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Review and govern solution designs, identifying risks, gaps, and trade-offs while ensuring adherence to enterprise standards.
- Drive innovation through feasibility studies, POCs, and pilot initiatives, validating new technologies and architectural approaches.
- Provide oversight for vendor and third-party solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and integration standards.
- Participate in architecture governance forums, contributing to design reviews, approvals, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and guide junior data architects and engineers, fostering best practices, design excellence, and capability growth.
- 4+ years of experience in modern data cloud data architecture, or related fields, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with current AI technologies and MCP architecture, modern data and analytics tools, such as Snowflake, Matillion, Power BI and other industry-leading platforms.
- Proven experience leading the design and delivery of enterprise data solutions, including data warehousing, data management, big data, and data integration initiatives.
- Extensive hands-on expertise in architecting and building end-to-end data platforms, leveraging modern technologies and cloud environments (preferably Microsoft Azure), with experience in cloud-native, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures.
- Strong ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions, with excellent communication skills to articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of modern data ecosystems, including data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures, with the ability to evaluate and select optimal technologies for ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, APIs, and microservices.
- Experience collaborating with vendors and third-party partners, ensuring successful delivery aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
- Familiarity with unified analytics platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric) or similar modern data platforms is highly desirable.
- Strong foundation in data governance, data quality, security, and privacy, with an understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence decisions and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Architect modern, scalable data platforms that enable advanced analytics, AI/ML, and Generative AI use cases while ensuring governance, security, and performance.
Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 22. $93,425 - $202,404
- Competitive base and incentive pay
- 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
- Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
- Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
- Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
- Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
- Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
- Employee discount program
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in modern data cloud data architecture
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Proven experience leading enterprise data solutions
- Expertise in cloud-native, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, Matillion, Power BI
Delta Dental Insurance Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Delta Dental Insurance Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Delta Dental Insurance Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, including a sizable automatic 401(k) contribution plus additional matching. This boosts overall total-rewards value even when base pay is viewed as only mid-market in some areas.
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Affordable Benefits — Core coverage is framed as unusually low-cost to employees, including fully employer-paid dental and vision and low employee contribution medical options. This creates meaningful take-home value beyond cash compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as generous, including broad PTO/holidays and additional paid leave features such as parental leave. These policies increase perceived rewards and help balance workload demands.
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What We Do
At Delta Dental, we’re behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we’ve served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care – but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building programs that offer opportunities for advancement, create meaningful connections, and improve the lives of our employees and their families. Because we know that when we take exceptional care of each other, we can make a positive impact for all. We champion an inspirational workplace through our commitment to trust, service, excellence and innovation. Joining us means working for a company that offers stability and balance, opportunities for leadership at all levels, and a work environment. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental Insurance Company are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country. Together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering over 31 million enrollees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 80 million people. Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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