Data Engineering Architect/Lead
QualityAI · Posted Nov 12, 2026
- Remote, United States
- Remote
- Full-time · Lead
- $135K–$145K per year
- 8+ years
Take the EDL vision and high architecture as defined, turn it into concrete low-level designs, work packages, explain and hand them to the engineering team, and work with the project managers to deliver on phase deadlines. Hands on ~ 50%, deep enough to review, unblock and set the technical bar. Owns outcomes end to end, finds and fixes problems, and multiplies that reach with AI native way of working.
Compensation
A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $135,000 - $145,000.
Responsibilities
- Translate vision into design. Take the architectural direction and produce implementable designs, strategize and translate to tasks. Keep the vision and high-level design intact through delivery without redefining the vision or reducing the scope.
- Build with AI every day using Claude Code, Codex or similar. Write the markdown specs, skills and context files that make coding effective, and review what they produce to a production standard.
- Stay hands on with the Data Lakehouse foundation. Python, PySpark, Delta Lake and medallion design on AIDP (OCI).
- Design data products and semantic structures. Blueprints covering scope, canonical entities, certified metrics, quality rules, lineage, access and publication criteria.
- Set standards for keys, naming conventions, configuration, reference data and metadata, and keep them aligned to the business glossary.
Requirements
- Nice to have: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Nice to have: Golden Gate
- Nice to have: Autonomous Database