Responsibilities
• Design enterprise data architectures including data lakes, lakehouses, cloud repositories, and hybrid environments that support analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives.
• Lead architecture assessments, develop target-state designs, and provide strategic guidance on cloud platforms, data governance, integration patterns, and data modernization efforts.
• Partner with data engineers, cloud engineers, and AI teams to ensure data environments are scalable, secure, well-governed, and optimized for future AI use cases.
Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, cloud architecture, or related technical disciplines with demonstrated ownership of enterprise data platform design.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, along with data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, ETL/ELT concepts, and modern cloud-native data services.
• Ability to operate as a client-facing advisor while maintaining sufficient hands-on technical depth to guide architecture decisions and support implementation teams.
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This job is Hybrid Remote.
We offer several comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, paid and unpaid time off, and retirement and savings plans to qualifying employees.
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Sparks Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy, citizenship, family status, genetic information, disability, or protect veteran status.
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Sparks Group (formerly SPARKS, Sparks IT Solutions, and Sparks Personnel) is the Washington DC Area's leading temporary staffing and full-time recruiting services provider. Whether you are seeking your next opportunity or looking to add talent, Sparks Group is the ideal partner for you! Each of our four divisions (Sparks Office, Sparks Accounting & Finance, Sparks IT, and Sparks Creative) specializes in placing professionals in temporary/contract, temporary-to-full-time, and full-time roles across a diverse array of staffing categories, positions and levels including: office/administrative, customer service, human resources and talent acquisition, legal support, government and cleared personnel, mortgage/banking, accounting and finance, contracts and procurement, information technology and creative/marketing.
Sparks Group brings over four decades of experience placing professionals in challenging and rewarding positions at many of the area’s most prestigious organizations. Our primary focus is presenting opportunities that match each candidate’s skill-sets, experience levels, career objectives, and growth needs. Sparks Group has regularly ranked as one of the top US staffing and recruiting firms having been named to Inavero’s Best of Staffing Lists® for Client and Employee Satisfaction (2012-2017). Additionally, Sparks Group is proud to have been recently selected for other awards Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2017 Best Staffing Firms to Work For, Washington Business Journal Best Places to Work (2017), the Washington Post’s Top Workplaces® List (2017, 2014), Forbes® Best Professional Recruiting Firms (2017), and the National Capital Business Ethics Award.