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 163,991
✏️ This salary info is based on 670 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average senior-level / expert Data Architect salary lies between USD 128,600 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
- 670
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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 | 1646 jobs Security | 1135 jobs Engineering | 1111 jobs SQL | 1076 jobs Data governance | 1011 jobs AWS | 985 jobs Azure | 978 jobs Data management | 863 jobs ETL | 850 jobs Python | 801 jobs Computer Science | 786 jobs Data quality | 770 jobs Pipelines | 749 jobs GCP | 601 jobs Databricks | 591 jobs Snowflake | 587 jobs Machine Learning | 582 jobs Agile | 527 jobs Data Warehousing | 511 jobs Privacy | 508 jobsTop 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 | 1183 jobs Health care | 707 jobs Flex hours | 457 jobs Competitive pay | 392 jobs Insurance | 368 jobs Startup environment | 285 jobs Equity / stock options | 278 jobs Flex vacation | 274 jobs Team events | 267 jobs Salary bonus | 235 jobs 401(k) matching | 229 jobs Medical leave | 213 jobs Parental leave | 205 jobs Wellness | 192 jobs Fertility benefits | 94 jobs Transparency | 80 jobs Fitness / gym | 57 jobs Conferences | 52 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 39 jobs Relocation support | 37 jobsRelated salaries
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