Director, Data Architecture
IGT is seeking a Director, Data Architecture to lead the vision, strategy, and governance for its enterprise data architecture across Databricks and AWS. This leadership role is responsible for establishing the standards, frameworks, and best practices that enable Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Data Science teams to deliver trusted, secure, and scalable data solutions.
The Director will collaborate with technical and business leaders to drive innovation and support AI and machine learning initiatives. The role involves building and mentoring a high-performing team of data architects and engineers while ensuring the enterprise data ecosystem remains robust, compliant, and efficient.
- Define and lead the enterprise data architecture strategy across Databricks and AWS.
- Develop scalable data ingestion, transformation, and serving architectures using modern ELT/ETL methodologies and Delta Lake.
- Establish enterprise-wide data modeling standards, data contracts, naming conventions, schema management, and data quality expectations.
- Partner with Data Engineering, BI, Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure consistency across decentralized data initiatives.
- Design and govern secure, scalable cloud environments, including development, staging, and production architectures.
- Establish governance standards for platform configuration, access controls, secrets management, and cloud resource utilization.
- Guide architecture decisions supporting structured and unstructured data, AI/ML initiatives, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities.
- Build, mentor, and lead a team of data architects and engineers while promoting architectural excellence and cost-efficient cloud practices.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and reference designs that improve developer productivity and platform consistency.
- Partner with data governance leaders to ensure compliance with data quality, lifecycle management, and regulatory requirements.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (required)
- 10+ years of experience in Data Architecture or Senior Data Engineering within modern cloud environments (required)
- At least 3 years of leadership experience (required)
- Deep expertise with Databricks, Delta Lake, and modern cloud data architecture (required)
- Strong knowledge of AWS services, including storage, compute, IAM, networking, and secure access patterns (required)
- Experience designing scalable enterprise data architectures across cross-functional or decentralized organizations (required)
- Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata management, and data lifecycle principles (required)
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive architectural standards across multiple teams (required)
- Excellent communication, documentation, and mentoring skills (required)
- Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing technical teams (required)
- Experience with Unity Catalog or similar data governance solutions (preferred)
- Knowledge of AI/ML platforms and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures (preferred)
- Experience with DataOps, platform governance, and enterprise BI ecosystems (preferred)
- Gaming industry experience (nice-to-have)
- Discretionary bonus opportunities
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off and wellness programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401(k) with company contributions
- Additional benefits including disability coverage and identity protection
International Game Technology (IGT) is a global gaming company best known for designing and manufacturing slot machines, casino systems and digital gaming content. Founded in 1975 and long headquartered in Las Vegas, with major operations in Rome and Providence, it has been one of the largest gaming-machine and lottery suppliers in the world. In 2025 the group's lottery business was renamed Brightstar Lottery, while IGT's gaming and digital division was acquired by Apollo Global Management and combined with Everi, continuing to trade under the IGT brand. The company supplies land-based and online casino games to operators across the globe.
