Data Platform Architect jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-06-12, Skillenai has indexed 31 job postings with the title “Data Platform Architect” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is data governance, with demand up 27% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-06-12
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+How many Data Platform Architect jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 31 job postings with the title “Data Platform Architect” over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, with demand up 27% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Data Platform Architect jobs require?
Across Data Platform Architect postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, the skills mentioned most often are data governance, Data engineering, data modeling, SQL, data architecture.
+Which cities are hiring the most Data Platform Architect?
As of 2026-06-12, Data Platform Architect postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in San Francisco, Boadilla del Monte, London, Tokyo, Budapest.
+Is Data Platform Architect a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 31 Data Platform Architect postings over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, with demand up 27% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Data Platform Architect postings is data governance, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Data Platform Architect postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Data Platform Architect
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| data governance | 10 | 32.3% |
| Data engineering | 8 | 25.8% |
| data modeling | 7 | 22.6% |
| SQL | 7 | 22.6% |
| data architecture | 6 | 19.4% |
| Python | 5 | 16.1% |
| data quality | 5 | 16.1% |
| Data platform architecture | 5 | 16.1% |
| data lineage | 5 | 16.1% |
| Snowflake | 5 | 16.1% |
| ETL | 4 | 12.9% |
| privacy | 4 | 12.9% |
| data ingestion | 4 | 12.9% |
| AWS | 4 | 12.9% |
| Databricks | 4 | 12.9% |
Top metros hiring Data Platform Architect
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 3 | 9.7% |
| Boadilla del Monte | 2 | 6.5% |
| London | 2 | 6.5% |
| Tokyo | 2 | 6.5% |
| Budapest | 1 | 3.2% |
| Buenos Aires | 1 | 3.2% |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 | 3.2% |
| Irvine | 1 | 3.2% |
| Kraków | 1 | 3.2% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-06-12, matching postings whose canonical role is “Data Platform Architect”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Data Platform Architect
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The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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