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 160,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 330 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Data Architect salary lies between USD 124,000 and USD 198,300 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
330
Top 10%
$ 235,000
Top 25%
$ 198,300
Median
$ 160,000
Bottom 25%
$ 124,000
Bottom 10%
$ 96,600

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 | 775 jobs Security | 560 jobs Engineering | 533 jobs SQL | 525 jobs Data governance | 480 jobs AWS | 470 jobs Azure | 458 jobs Data management | 410 jobs Python | 409 jobs ETL | 392 jobs Data quality | 382 jobs Computer Science | 374 jobs Pipelines | 338 jobs GCP | 289 jobs Snowflake | 280 jobs Databricks | 280 jobs Machine Learning | 268 jobs Big Data | 261 jobs Agile | 257 jobs Data Warehousing | 246 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 | 560 jobs Health care | 331 jobs Flex hours | 232 jobs Insurance | 188 jobs Competitive pay | 177 jobs Equity / stock options | 146 jobs Startup environment | 131 jobs Flex vacation | 125 jobs Team events | 120 jobs 401(k) matching | 115 jobs Salary bonus | 112 jobs Medical leave | 110 jobs Parental leave | 104 jobs Wellness | 95 jobs Fertility benefits | 60 jobs Transparency | 35 jobs Conferences | 34 jobs Fitness / gym | 32 jobs Relocation support | 17 jobs Home office stipend | 16 jobs

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