Senior Data Architect

Architect the Future of Enterprise Intelligence

The Senior Data Architect provides technical leadership across Hilti’s data landscape shaping enterprise data strategy and designing scalable, secure, and well governed data platforms that power analytics, AI/ML, and intelligent applications. This role spans traditional data management (DBMS, data modeling, warehousing, governance) and modern cloud native/AI data engineering on AWS, including bronze, silver, gold patterns, Generation (RAG) for LLMs, and data products that serve Cloud-native SaaS application teams at global scale. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, data scientists, engineers, and platform teams to translate use cases into target data architectures, ensuring performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency at global scale.

What You’ll Bring

• This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization or visa sponsorship (including initial, transfer, or extension), and candidates must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and remain authorized for the duration of employment without the need for sponsorship.
• Bachelor’s or master's in computer science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). Relevant certifications a plus (e.g., AWS Data Analytics/Solutions Architect preferred).
• 10+ years designing and delivering enterprise data solutions, including hands-on work with both traditional DBMS and cloud native data platforms.
• 5+ years building on cloud platforms with production experience in several of: S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift, Athena, EMR/Spark, Kinesis/MSK, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SageMaker.
• Demonstrated expertise implementing data propagation Lakehouse patterns and governance at scale.
• Proven track record supporting AI/ML workloads (feature stores, model data pipelines) and delivering RAG solutions with vector search on AWS.
• Strong SQL and Python; proficiency in data modeling - IFC (preferred), 3NF, dimensional/star, data vault, etc.
• DBMS: SQL Server, PostgreSQL (schema, indexing, query planning, replication/HA, partitioning, backup/restore).
• Data Engineering: Spark/EMR, Glue (ETL/ELT & Studio), Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, Parquet/Delta/Iceberg.
• Streaming/CDC: MSK/Kinesis, DMS (change data capture), event driven patterns.
• Security & Governance: IAM, KMS, Lake Formation, Secrets Manager, data masking/tokenization, RBAC/ABAC.
• AI/LLM enablement: Amazon Bedrock (Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, Agents), embeddings, chunking, retrieval, prompt design, token optimization, evaluation loops.
• Observability & FinOps: Cloud logs/metrics, lineage/quality SLAs, cost controls (storage/compute), workload rightsizing.
• DevOps/MLOps/IaC: Git, CI/CD for data pipelines; Terraform/CDK; environment promotion; artifact/versioning; blue/green or canary for data jobs.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Redshift RA3/Spectrum, materialized views, workload management, and federated queries (Athena/Glue).
• Familiarity with Power BI / Microsoft Fabric and Amazon Quick Sight; semantic modeling and governance for BI.
• Exposure to privacy enhancing technologies (anonymization, differential privacy), policy as code, and guardrail frameworks.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams and regulated data.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance short-term increments and long term architecture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation of architecture decisions, and stakeholder alignment.
• Mentoring mindset and demonstrated influence without authority across cross functional teams.

Legal Notice

Hilti Inc is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.