Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Architect during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Architect during 2025 is USD 151,388

✏️ This salary info is based on 859 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Data Architect salary lies between USD 115,000 and USD 196,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Data Architect
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
859
Top 10%
$ 234,240
Top 25%
$ 196,000
Median
$ 151,388
Bottom 25%
$ 115,000
Bottom 10%
$ 80,635

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Data Architect roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Data Architect job listings are Architecture, Security and Engineering. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Architecture | 1801 jobs Security | 1231 jobs Engineering | 1222 jobs SQL | 1188 jobs Data governance | 1106 jobs AWS | 1072 jobs Azure | 1064 jobs ETL | 941 jobs Data management | 929 jobs Python | 874 jobs Computer Science | 860 jobs Data quality | 840 jobs Pipelines | 828 jobs GCP | 657 jobs Databricks | 650 jobs Snowflake | 639 jobs Machine Learning | 635 jobs Agile | 573 jobs Data Warehousing | 551 jobs Privacy | 545 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Data Architect roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Data Architect job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 1302 jobs Health care | 770 jobs Flex hours | 508 jobs Competitive pay | 443 jobs Insurance | 392 jobs Startup environment | 315 jobs Equity / stock options | 312 jobs Flex vacation | 307 jobs Team events | 299 jobs Salary bonus | 262 jobs 401(k) matching | 247 jobs Medical leave | 224 jobs Parental leave | 223 jobs Wellness | 204 jobs Fertility benefits | 95 jobs Transparency | 86 jobs Fitness / gym | 63 jobs Conferences | 53 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 43 jobs Flexible spending account | 42 jobs

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