Senior Data Architect

Description

The Data Architect role goes beyond traditional data architecture. This individual operates with a strong product-oriented mindset, shaping scalable, trusted, and business-aligned data capabilities that enable AI, analytics, operational intelligence, and customer-facing digital solutions. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, engineering, analytics, and digital product teams to define enterprise data strategies across supply chain, transportation, commercial technology, and customer platforms. The focus is on architecture, strategy, and enablement, not hands-on engineering. This position is critical to enabling data-driven innovation across Sysco's digital ecosystem, including customer platforms, routing and transportation systems, merchandising analytics, and enterprise operational platforms.

Skills

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• BigQuery
• Vertex AI
• Looker, Tableau, Power BI
• Kafka
• Data architecture & platform strategy
• Enterprise data
• AWS
• Data science & Machine learning
• Airflow, dbt
• Analytics platforms

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience implementing product-centric data ownership models and enterprise data product strategies.
• Familiarity with DevOps/DataOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with orchestration, transformation, and modeling frameworks such as Airflow and dbt.
• Experience supporting streaming and real-time operational architectures using Kafka, Pub/Sub, Spark, or Flink.
• Background supporting large-scale operational, logistics, retail, distribution, or supply chain environments preferred.

Experience Level

Expert Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Houston, TX.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $95.00 - $120.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 27, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.