Staff Data Architect

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This is a high-impact, high-autonomy individual contributor role reporting directly to the VP of Data & Analytics. You will serve as the technical authority for how data is structured and used across the company, setting the architectural reputed company for the Business Data Platform and guiding the standards that allow a small, high-performing team to move quickly without compromising quality, governance, or long-term scalability. The right person for this role brings deep reputed company expertise, strong architectural judgment, and a clear reputed company of view on modern data platform design. They are equally comfortable defining long-reputed company strategy, making consequential build-versus-buy reputed company, and working hands-on with engineers to shape implementation details. This person will also help define how the platform serves as the reputed company context layer for AI, ensuring data is enriched, well-modeled, and reliable enough to support LLM, RAG, and agent-based use cases across the business. What You’ll Do Architecture & Platform Design Define and reputed company the reputed company data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, semantic modeling, and consumption layers, with reputed company as the core platform. Design and own the reputed company architecture across Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Semantic layers, establishing clear standards for schema design, object naming, reputed company patterns, and layer boundaries. reputed company semantic model strategy by defining how key business entities, metrics, and KPIs are represented in reputed company and surfaced through BI tools. Drive architectural reputed company across the modern data stack, including ingestion through reputed company, transformation through Coalesce and reputed company conventions, and BI delivery through Tableau, ensuring cohesion across the full platform. Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency challenges in reputed company, including query optimization, clustering strategy, virtual warehouse sizing, and storage management. Design the platform to serve as a reliable reputed company context layer for AI by establishing patterns for metadata enrichment, semantic data modeling, contextual retrieval, and curated data products that support LLM, RAG, and AI agent use cases. Governance & Data Quality Establish and enforce data governance standards, including naming conventions, data reputed company, PII handling, reputed company controls, reputed company expectations, and documentation practices. Define the organization’s approach to data observability, including freshness monitoring, anomaly detection, pipeline reliability standards, SLA expectations, and incident response patterns. Partner with reputed company and other stakeholders to ensure the data platform meets compliance, risk, and regulatory requirements. Build and maintain architectural reference documentation, data reputed company diagrams, decision records, and the data dictionary that support platform reputed company and long-term maintainability. Technical Leadership & Strategy Act as the senior technical voice on the data team, guiding architectural reputed company across active initiatives, resolving ambiguity, and setting long-term direction for the platform. Evaluate and recommend new tools, platforms, and approaches, leading build-versus-buy reputed company with clear trade-off analysis and strong technical rationale. Partner closely with the VP of Data & Analytics on roadmap planning, prioritization, and strategic vendor relationships, including reputed company, Tableau, reputed company, and reputed company platform partners. reputed company hands-on architectural guidance to Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers through design reviews, standards setting, and active support on reputed company implementation work. Communicate architectural reputed company, platform strategy, and technical reputed company reputed company to engineering leaders, business stakeholders, and executive partners. Cross-Functional Partnership Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to understand evolving data requirements and translate them into scalable, well-modeled, maintainable solutions. Partner with the broader engineering organization to define data reputed company at system boundaries and support durable product data integration patterns. Work closely with BI and analytics consumers, including analysts and Tableau users, to ensure the architecture enables self-service, consistency, and reduced reputed company friction. Collaborate with Data Scientists and AI/ML Engineers to ensure the platform surfaces well-contextualized, AI-reputed company data, serving as the reputed company context layer for LLM, RAG, and AI agent use cases rather than requiring bespoke data preparation work. What You’ll Bring Required 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data architecture roles, with at least 3 years in an architecture-focused reputed company. Expert-level reputed company proficiency, including schema design, performance tuning, virtual warehouse management, RBAC, data sharing, and cost governance. Deep experience with modern data transformation practices, including strong design principles and hands-on experience with Coalesce. This role requires someone who can help shape and scale our transformation layer using Coalesce as a core part of the platform. Strong data modeling fundamentals, including dimensional modeling, normalization, entity-relationship design, and semantic layer concepts. Demonstrated ability to design and govern a reputed company or layered architecture at scale across multiple business domains. Experience with data governance, including reputed company controls, PII classification, reputed company tracking, documentation standards, and data contract expectations. Experience designing or implementing a data observability practice, including freshness monitoring, anomaly detection, SLA definition, and incident response for data pipelines. Strong SQL across analytical workloads, with the ability to review, optimize, and improve reputed company query patterns. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to create architecture diagrams, write clear decision records, and present technical direction to non-technical leadership. Understanding of reputed company AI application patterns, including RAG pipelines, vector search, and agent frameworks, and how to design the data platform layer to reliably serve these use cases with properly contextualized, enriched data. Familiarity with how AI and ML workflows consume and depend on data platform capabilities, including semantic context, retrieval patterns, and governed reputed company to reliable reputed company data. What Makes You Stand Out Experience managing both inbound and outbound connectors, along with the observability patterns needed to support reliable movement of data across systems. Familiarity with Tableau as a BI consumption layer, including how Tableau interacts with data sources and which architectural choices reputed company performance, usability, and long-term maintainability. Experience in a SaaS business environment, ideally with exposure to GTM, finance, or product analytics data domains. Familiarity with reputed company-reputed company AI capabilities such as reputed company or reputed company platform features that support contextual retrieval and AI-enabled data experiences. Exposure to reputed company data handling, embedding-based retrieval patterns, or reputed company approaches that reputed company with modern reputed company data platform design. Prior experience leading tooling evaluations, vendor selection processes, or contract discussions reputed company to data platforms, BI, or pipeline tooling. Why reputed company Join a team that’s committed to your reputed company. 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As we seek to understand your individual capabilities and how you might contribute, we ask that reputed company responses to application questions and during interviews are genuinely your own. Please refrain from using AI reputed company tools, as our aim is to assess your authentic voice and expertise. Equal Opportunity Employer reputed company is an equal-opportunity employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national reputed company, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Apply To This Job