Architect the Data Behind the Future of Flight—Join as a Senior Data Architect

• Job Title: Senior Data Architect

• Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite)

• Schedule: Monday–Friday | 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM

• Job Type: Full-Time | 12-Month Consultant Assignment

• Pay rate: $70.00 - $84.00/ Hour

• US Citizenship required due to Government regulations*

PDS Tech Commercial is partnering with a leading aerospace innovator to hire a visionary Senior Data Architect in Seattle, WA. If you’re passionate about building scalable data systems, shaping enterprise data strategy, and driving innovation in analytics, this is your opportunity to transform how aviation training data powers the future.

You will lead the development of Unified Data Models (UDM), define transformation logic, and partner with distributed data engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-quality data solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Unified Data Models (UDM) and data architecture artifacts

• Define data transformation rules, routing logic, and schema evolution processes

• Architect and optimize data lakehouse solutions using Azure Databricks

• Collaborate with data engineers to implement scalable pipelines and processing layers (ingest, transform, curated)

• Establish and enforce data governance, lineage, and quality standards

• Review and approve data pipeline designs and architecture decisions

• Define partitioning, storage, and performance optimization strategies

• Support CI/CD pipelines for Databricks and data infrastructure

• Partner with global teams (including offshore teams in India) to deliver solutions

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and best practices across teams

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience in Data Architecture / Data Engineering / Data Modeling

• Strong experience with Unified Data Modeling (UDM)

• Advanced SQL skills

• Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks and data lakehouse architecture

• Experience designing multi-layer data models (raw, transformed, curated)

• Strong understanding of data governance, lineage, metadata, and data quality frameworks

• Experience defining schema evolution, transformation logic, and data processing rules

• Experience working with distributed/global teams

• Strong communication and documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog

• Knowledge of streaming data (Kafka, Event Hubs)

• Experience with data catalog tools (Purview, Alation)

• Familiarity with CI/CD, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitOps

• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes

• Background in aviation, training analytics, or enterprise analytics platforms
  
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