Data Architect | Contract | Remote, USA

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About us:</strong></p> <p>Working at Tech Holding isn't just a job, it's an opportunity to be a part of something bigger. We are a full-service consulting firm that was founded on the premise of delivering predictable outcomes and high-quality solutions to our clients.  Our founders and team members have industry experience and have held senior positions in a wide variety of companies – from emerging startups to large Fortune 50 firms – and we have taken our combined experiences and developed a unique approach that is supported by the principles of deep expertise, integrity, transparency, and dependability.</p></div><p><strong>The Role: </strong></p> <p>We are seeking a senior Data Architect to design and govern the data layer of a large-scale Ad Tech platform transformation.<br>This person will be responsible for understanding the current-state data landscape, defining the future-state architecture, and designing scalable data models and integration patterns across ad delivery, audience segmentation, campaign reporting, inventory, and billing.<br>The ideal candidate has strong experience designing enterprise data foundations, conducting exploratory data analysis, architecting batch and real-time data pipelines, and integrating complex legacy systems with modern cloud-native platforms.<br>Experience designing data models for real-time inventory, order management, logistics, or supply chain systems is required..</p> <p> <strong>What you will do:  </strong></p> <ul> <li>Design scalable conceptual, logical, and physical data models for ad delivery, audience segmentation, campaign reporting, inventory, and billing.</li> <li>Map data relationships, dependencies, and flows across existing systems and ensure critical dependencies are preserved in the future-state architecture.</li> <li>Conduct exploratory data analysis across raw and existing datasets to develop a comprehensive understanding of the current-state data landscape.</li> <li>Profile existing data sources, inventory and characterize data assets, assess data quality, and identify gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and integration risks.</li> <li>Define data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration patterns across batch and real-time data streams.</li> <li>Design data architectures that support high-volume events such as ad impressions, click activity, audience signals, inventory changes, and campaign transactions.</li> <li>Architect cloud-native data solutions using AWS services and technologies such as relational databases, graph databases, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector databases.</li> <li>Define integration patterns between legacy systems and a modern microservices-based platform.</li> <li>Ensure data interfaces, schemas, contracts, relationships, and system dependencies are clearly defined and documented.</li> <li>Establish data governance standards across lineage, cataloging, data quality, access controls, privacy, security, and lifecycle management.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with cloud services, engineering, architecture, product, and business teams across multiple workstreams.</li> <li>Maintain data architecture artifacts including entity relationship diagrams, data flow diagrams, schema definitions, data dictionaries, and architecture decision records.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Skills: </strong></p> <ul> <li>8+ years of experience in data architecture, enterprise data platforms, data engineering, or a related field.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience designing and governing complex enterprise data architectures.</li> <li>Strong experience designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models.</li> <li>Experience designing data models for real-time inventory, order management, logistics, or supply chain systems.</li> <li>Strong experience conducting exploratory data analysis and profiling complex enterprise data sources.</li> <li>Experience designing batch, streaming, event-driven, and real-time data architectures.</li> <li>Strong experience architecting cloud-native data solutions using AWS services.</li> <li>Experience with relational databases and modern cloud data platforms.</li> <li>Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, data contracts, integration architecture, and interoperability across legacy and modern systems.</li> <li>Strong knowledge of metadata, lineage, cataloging, governance, data quality, security, and access controls.</li> <li>Ability to assess a complex current-state environment and translate findings into a practical future-state architecture and implementation roadmap.</li> <li>Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Must have:  </strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with advertising technology, media, digital advertising, campaign management, or audience data platforms.</li> <li>Experience working with high-volume transactional or event-based data.</li> <li>Familiarity with graph databases, vector databases, semantic retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic AI use cases.</li> <li>Experience supporting data platform modernization or large-scale transformation programs.</li> <li>Consulting or client-facing experience.</li> <li>Experience collaborating with cloud professional services teams.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we…