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 554 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
554
Top 10%
$ 240,000
Top 25%
$ 200,000
Median
$ 161,400
Bottom 25%
$ 128,000
Bottom 10%
$ 96,800

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 | 1325 jobs Security | 933 jobs Engineering | 892 jobs SQL | 871 jobs Data governance | 826 jobs AWS | 799 jobs Azure | 778 jobs Data management | 711 jobs ETL | 685 jobs Python | 673 jobs Data quality | 643 jobs Computer Science | 634 jobs Pipelines | 595 jobs GCP | 490 jobs Databricks | 474 jobs Snowflake | 473 jobs Machine Learning | 460 jobs Agile | 432 jobs Data Warehousing | 419 jobs Big Data | 417 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 | 960 jobs Health care | 568 jobs Flex hours | 381 jobs Competitive pay | 328 jobs Insurance | 309 jobs Flex vacation | 228 jobs Equity / stock options | 226 jobs Startup environment | 222 jobs Team events | 210 jobs Salary bonus | 192 jobs 401(k) matching | 189 jobs Medical leave | 186 jobs Parental leave | 170 jobs Wellness | 157 jobs Fertility benefits | 85 jobs Transparency | 62 jobs Fitness / gym | 49 jobs Conferences | 47 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 30 jobs Home office stipend | 28 jobs

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