Business Systems Architect

Join phData , a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises. We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results. Why phData? • Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years , and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year • AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network • 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year) • 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status • 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year • Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network • #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications • 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more) • Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US , India and LATAM About The Role The Business Systems Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving enterprise platform architecture solutions that support scalable, secure, and efficient business operations. This role partners with IT and business teams to solve complex technical challenges, lead architecture initiatives aligned with defined functional strategies, and support modernization efforts, including AI enablement, automation, integrations, and cloud transformation. This role exists to create a more connected, reliable, and scalable operating platform across the systems that run our Finance, People/HR, Revenue Operations, and IT processes. The architect will lead through ambiguous cross-functional problem so teams can operate with greater speed, visibility, and confidence. The architect must operate with a high degree of independence, providing technical leadership for architectural decisions while aligning solutions to business objectives, security requirements, and operational standards. Primary Responsibilities and Duties • Convert ambiguous stakeholder needs into prioritized projects with measurable success criteria. • Own requirements intake, discovery, process mapping, impact analysis, and scoping for cross-functional business systems initiatives. • Finalize solution designs and coordinate end-to-end technical implementation, including test planning, end-user UAT, defect resolution, deployment, post-deployment validation, and historical data reconciliation. • Own ongoing data quality, including establishing monitoring, cleansing, validation, migration/backloading, and reconciliation as gaps are identified or data models evolve. • Design and maintain enterprise architecture solutions for IT-owned systems and platforms • Lead architecture efforts for moderately complex cross-functional initiatives • Translate business and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions • Define integration approaches across various SaaS and cloud platforms • Support AI and automation initiatives through architecture guidance and implementation support • Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations aligned to business needs • Ensure architecture solutions align with security, compliance, and governance standards • Collaborate with IT and business teams on solution delivery • Identify opportunities to optimize system performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members and project teams • Contribute to architectural standards, documentation, and best practices • Support vendor evaluations and technology selection activities • Governance and administration of