Senior Solutions Architect
Appnovation Technologies2 months ago
Miami, FL, USA +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end solution architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform across Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud data sources.
- Produce architecture decision records, reference architectures, solution diagrams, design standards, and build-versus-integrate recommendations.
- Define catalog, metadata, data-contract, and governance integration patterns across cloud and lakehouse environments.
- Design agent- and MCP-based access patterns for exposing governed data products to enterprise AI tools and agent platforms.
- Establish future-state direction for data products, cross-source data composition, and agentic data consumption.
- Align the platform with enterprise engineering practices and guide engineering teams toward implementation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of technology experience, including significant solution, enterprise, or data architecture experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing cross-cloud and multi-cloud data architectures.
- Experience applying zero-copy, data-mesh, data-product, and domain-driven design principles.
- Deep expertise in data governance, access control, data classification, and geolocation-based access requirements.
- Experience defining data-contract standards and embedding governance metadata into platform workflows.
- Strong identity and access management experience for users, machines, and agents, including OAuth/OIDC and service accounts.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, documentation, consulting, and client-facing delivery skills.
- Preferred familiarity with semantic layers, ontologies, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, FinOps, and regulated life-sciences or comparable compliance environments.
About Appnovation Technologies
Appnovation Technologies is a privately held digital consultancy that designs, builds, and supports customer-facing platforms for enterprises, combining strategy, UX, engineering, and managed services. Its teams deliver web and mobile development, Drupal and open-source implementations, Atlassian consulting, and data/AI-enabled solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vancouver, it serves global clients including Pfizer, Google, Yeti, TCL, and AstraZeneca.