Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Architect in United States during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Data Architect in United States during 2025 is USD 161,400

✏️ This salary info is based on 440 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Data Architect salary lies between USD 128,000 and USD 200,000 in the United States. 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
United States
Salary year
2025
Sample size
440
Top 10%
$ 241,600
Top 25%
$ 200,000
Median
$ 161,400
Bottom 25%
$ 128,000
Bottom 10%
$ 97,000

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). 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 | 1019 jobs Security | 726 jobs Engineering | 694 jobs SQL | 681 jobs Data governance | 635 jobs AWS | 605 jobs Azure | 596 jobs Data management | 548 jobs ETL | 528 jobs Python | 524 jobs Computer Science | 492 jobs Data quality | 491 jobs Pipelines | 452 jobs Databricks | 375 jobs GCP | 367 jobs Machine Learning | 363 jobs Snowflake | 363 jobs Agile | 338 jobs Data Warehousing | 331 jobs Big Data | 328 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 | 741 jobs Health care | 438 jobs Flex hours | 299 jobs Competitive pay | 243 jobs Insurance | 232 jobs Startup environment | 177 jobs Equity / stock options | 174 jobs Flex vacation | 167 jobs Team events | 159 jobs Salary bonus | 148 jobs 401(k) matching | 145 jobs Medical leave | 143 jobs Parental leave | 134 jobs Wellness | 116 jobs Fertility benefits | 68 jobs Transparency | 49 jobs Conferences | 41 jobs Fitness / gym | 40 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 24 jobs Relocation support | 22 jobs

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