About Cygnus Professionals, Inc.
Cygnus is a Princeton, NJ-headquartered global Business IT consulting and software Services firm with offices in the USA and Asia. Cygnus offers and enables innovation and helps our clients accelerate time to market & grow their business. Over 15 years, we have taken great pride in continuing our deep relationships with our clients.
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Job Title: Data Architect
Location: Princeton, New Jersey – Onsite
W2 Contract
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to design, build, and maintain scalable data architecture solutions supporting enterprise analytics, data integration, and digital transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, and application teams to design robust data models, data pipelines, and enterprise data platforms that support advanced analytics and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise data architecture frameworks and best practices.
- Develop logical and physical data models for enterprise data platforms.
- Architect data lakes, data warehouses, and data integration solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Collaborate with data engineers and application teams to build scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
- Ensure data governance, data quality, security, and compliance standards are implemented across the data ecosystem.
- Evaluate and recommend data technologies, tools, and frameworks aligned with enterprise strategy.
- Provide architectural guidance for cloud-based data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Optimize performance for large-scale data processing and analytics workloads.
- Support business intelligence, reporting, and advanced analytics initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data management.
- Strong experience with data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical).
- Expertise with data warehouse and data lake architectures.
- Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT tools and data integration platforms.
- Experience with SQL and large-scale data platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.).
- Experience working with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and metadata management.
- Experience with big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) is a plus.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, or Life Sciences domain.
- Knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM) and data catalog tools.
- Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker.
- Strong communication skills to interact with business and technical teams.
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field.
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