Lead Data Architect

Job Title: Lead Data Architect
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid – 2-3 days onsite)

Company Overview
Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned, global IT staffing and recruiting firm serving enterprise clients across the USA and Canada.

Project Description
Modernization and development of an eCommerce platform for a leading enterprise retail client serving millions of omnichannel customers weekly. Work spans Customer, Loyalty, Search & Browse, Data Integration, and Cart domains, with current focus on brand onboarding, re-architecture, database migrations, and cloud-native consolidation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design data architecture to support large-scale data processing
• Integrate new solutions with existing enterprise architecture
• Lead cross-functional teams and define technical/architectural strategy

Mandatory Skills

• 8+ years overall experience, minimum 1 year in a Lead/Architect role
• 3+ years recent hands-on Azure Data Factory & Synapse experience
• Data modeling: conceptual, logical, physical
• Azure Data Lake Storage, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, PySpark
• ETL/ELT pipeline development and multi-source data integration
• Data warehousing patterns: star schema, Data Mesh, Lakehouse, Data Vault
• Advanced SQL (querying, transformation, performance tuning)
• Metadata and governance integration
• Python / Python ETL tools
• Shell scripting (Bash/Unix/Windows) preferred

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Elasticsearch
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Azure/Databricks certification
• Strong stakeholder communication, mentoring, and delivery tracking
• CS/Data Science academic background