Data Platform Analytics Architect

Juniper Networks is seeking a Data Platform Analytics Architect who passionately designs scalable data platforms to unlock insights, drive product excellence, and empower customers worldwide. In this remote role, you will shape data strategy, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and deliver architectures that balance performance, governance, and cost efficiency. You will lead with curiosity, mentor peers, and translate complex analytics needs into practical, scalable solutions that accelerate decision‑making across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and advocate a modern data platform strategy, aligning analytics, data quality, and governance with business goals to accelerate value delivery.
• Architect scalable data models and pipelines for analytics, machine learning, and reporting that meet enterprise requirements for reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with data engineers to implement data lakehouse solutions and orchestrate end‑to‑end data flows across cloud services.
• Evaluate and select best‑in‑breed data tools and technologies to optimize ingestion, storage, processing, and analytics workloads.
• Lead data governance initiatives by defining metadata, lineage, and security policies in collaboration with privacy and compliance teams.
• Mentor data engineers and analysts on best practices for data modeling, performance tuning, and scalable analytics.
• Partner with product and service teams to translate business questions into analytical requirements and deliver actionable insights.
• Establish data quality standards, monitoring, and alerting to ensure trustworthy analytics across the enterprise.
• Drive performance optimization by profiling workloads, indexing strategies, and query tuning for faster insights.
• Champion reproducible analytics through versioned notebooks, pipelines, and automated testing in CI/CD environments.
• Communicate architectural decisions, trade‑offs, and roadmaps clearly to leadership and stakeholders to enable informed planning.

According to JobzMall, the average salary range for a Data Platform Analytics Architect is $130,000 to $220,000 per year. This can vary depending on experience level, industry, company size, and the specific technology stack and responsibilities.

Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and markets networking products, including routers, switches, network management software, network security products, and software-defined networking technology.