Senior Data Architect

Description The Data Architect role goes beyond traditional data architecture. This individual operates with a strong productoriented mindset, shaping scalable, trusted, and businessaligned data capabilities that enable AI, analytics, operational intelligence, and customerfacing digital solutions. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, engineering, analytics, and digital product teams to define enterprise data strategies across supply chain, transportation, commercial technology, and customer platforms. The focus is on architecture, strategy, and enablement, not handson engineering. This position is critical to enabling datadriven innovation across Sysco's digital ecosystem, including customer platforms, routing and transportation systems, merchandising analytics, and enterprise operational platforms. Core Skills GCP, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Vertex AI, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Kafka Data architecture, platform strategy, Enterprise data, AWS, Data science, Machine learning, Airflow, dbt, Analytics platforms Additional Skills & Qualifications Experience implementing product-centric data ownership models and enterprise data product strategies. Familiarity with DevOps/DataOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelines. Experience with orchestration, transformation, and modeling frameworks such as Airflow and dbt. Experience supporting streaming and real‑time operational architectures using Kafka, Pub/Sub, Spark, or Flink. Background supporting large‑scale operational, logistics, retail, distribution, or supply chain environments preferred. Experience Level Expert Level Job Type & Location Contract to Hire position based out of Houston, TX. Pay and Benefits Pay range: $95.00 - $120.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long‑term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace Type This is a fully remote position. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on May 27, 2026. Equal Opportunity Employer The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. Compliance Statements San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Use of Artificial Intelligence: We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools. #J-18808-Ljbffr TEKsystems