Data Architect

Job summary: This role is responsible for leading the design, delivery, and evolution of cloudbased, AI enabled data integration and analytics platforms to meet enterprise technology and business goals. The Lead drives architectural decisions across Informatica (onprem and cloud), public cloud services, and AI driven data capabilities, ensuring scalable, secure, and high performance data solutions. The role partners with Product, Application, Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data Science teams to implement data and AI requirements, optimize platform performance, and resolve complex system engineering challenges. This position also provides technical leadership, governance, and mentorship across data, cloud, and AI initiatives. Strong hands-on experience with Informatica onprem and Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS). Deep understanding of Informatica Cloud architecture, secure agents, and hybrid/cloud deployment models. Experience designing solutions on public cloud platforms (Azure preferred), including integration with Azure Active Directory. Experience delivering AI/ML enabled data pipelines that support analytics, model training, and intelligent applications. Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining CI /CD pipelines across multiple Orgs and SubOrgs.

Location: Plano, Texas

Employment Type: Contract

Salary: $54.62 - 64.62 per hour

Work Hours: 8am to 5pm

Education: Bachelors

Responsibilities: This role leads the design, delivery, and evolution of cloudbased, AI enabled data integration and analytics platforms to meet enterprise technology and business goals. Drives architectural decisions across Informatica (onprem and cloud), public cloud services, and AI driven data capabilities, ensuring scalable, secure, and high performance data solutions. Partners with Product, Application, Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data Science teams to implement data and AI requirements, optimize platform performance, and resolve complex system engineering challenges. Provides technical leadership, governance, and mentorship across data, cloud, and AI initiatives.

Qualifications: Knowledge of data replication and availability across cloud object storage (S3compatible), local file systems, and NAS. Familiarity with Operational Insights, cloud monitoring, and AI-driven observability (preferred). Proven experience with Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management in cloud environments. Expertise in performance optimization, cost efficiency, and scaling cloud data workloads. Experience mentoring teams on cloud, data engineering, and AI data best practices. Background working in a shared services or platform engineering model. Data, Cloud AI Platform Expertise Operational Delivery Experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. At OpenKyber, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, OpenKyber offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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