Solutions Architect - Modern Data Management Platforms

Function Product Our Company We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data. Job description The team You will join the Data Platforms and Solutions Architecture team at Hitachi Vantara, a group focused on helping customers build modern, governed, and AI-ready data ecosystems. The team collaborates closely with product management, engineering, field sales, partners, and strategic customers to develop reference architectures, validate emerging technologies, and drive adoption of open, interoperable data platforms. Together, we enable organizations to unlock the value of their data through scalable lakehouse architectures, strong governance frameworks, compliance-by-design principles, and enterprise-grade foundations that support analytics, AI, and generative AI initiatives. The role As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will lead the design, validation, and development of modern enterprise data management solutions across the Hitachi portfolio. You will define reference architectures, validate technical patterns, and provide customer-facing guidance for data lakehouse platforms, object storage, open table formats, governance frameworks, and AI-ready data foundations. Working across engineering, product, and customer teams, you will translate business requirements into scalable, governed, and compliant architectures. This role requires a hands-on architect who can evaluate new technologies, support proofs of concept, develop technical collateral, and engage directly with customers and executive stakeholders. Success in this role will come from combining deep technical expertise with strong communication skills to position Hitachi solutions as trusted foundations for analytics, data management, and AI workloads. What you'll bring 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, data architecture, data engineering, enterprise storage, analytics platforms, or related fields. Proven experience designing and validating production-grade data platforms and lakehouse architectures. Deep knowledge of data lakes, data lakehouses, object storage, and S3-compatible storage architectures. Strong expertise with Apache Iceberg, Parquet, and open table formats; Delta Lake experience is a plus. Hands-on experience with ETL, ELT, batch processing, and streaming data pipelines using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, and Pentaho PDI. Experience designing architectures that integrate governance, metadata management, lineage, data quality, classification, retention, and auditability requirements. Familiarity with governance platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, DataHub, or OpenMetadata. Understanding of AI-ready data foundations, including support for analytics, generative AI, RAG, metadata enrichment, and data governance for AI workloads. Experience with modern query and federation technologies such as Trino, Starburst, Dremio, Snowflake, Databricks SQL, Athena, Presto, or Denodo. Strong customer-facing communication skills, with the ability to develop reference architectures, lead technical workshops, support executive discussions, and translate complex concepts into clear business value. As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is: $135K to $150k. Expected on-target earnings: $157K to $173K. The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions. #LI-JT1 About us We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential. Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work. How we look after you We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with. We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.