Data Architect

We are looking for a Senior Data Architect to help define and evolve the data architecture of our SaaS platform and core products. You will work closely with product, delivery, and engineering squads to design scalable, reliable data systems, set technical direction for how data is ingested, modeled, stored, and served, and guide teams in making high-quality architectural decisions that balance delivery speed with long-term sustainability.
This is a hands-on, senior technical leadership role: you will spend most of your time shaping data architectures with teams, reviewing data models, pipelines and critical code, and driving shared standards and patterns across the organization, all in an advanced agentic environment.
Responsibilities:
Define and evolve the data architecture for key domains (ingestion, ELT/ETL, data modeling, storage, APIs, integration, observability, governance, and security), including owning the lakehouse/medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) and the data flows that move data across layers at scale.
Translate business and product requirements into pragmatic data designs, data contracts, and architecture roadmaps; create and maintain architecture artefacts (data flow/lineage diagrams, ADRs, reference implementations, modeling guidelines).
Evaluate design options and technology choices, articulate trade-offs, and lead decision-making with stakeholders; push forward the agentic mindset and implementation across the data platform.
Partner with squad leads and senior engineers to design data solutions, break down complex problems, and keep implementations aligned with the target architecture; participate in design/tech reviews to ensure NFRs (performance, scalability, data quality, resilience, security, operability) are addressed early.
Provide hands-on support where it matters most: spike and prototype critical data flows, review complex PRs, and help debug tricky production data and pipeline issues.
Collaborate with Product to shape technical feasibility, sequencing, and scope for data-driven roadmap items; communicate complex technical topics in simple language to non-technical stakeholders.
Define and promote data architecture principles, modeling conventions, coding standards, and reusable patterns (shared transformations, libraries, datasets, services) to reduce duplication and technical debt; drive adoption of shared platform capabilities (observability, CI/CD, orchestration, governance, DevOps tooling) across squads.
Ensure data architectures are observable, operable, and resilient by design; partner with DevOps/SRE on deployment, monitoring, data quality, and incident response; identify areas of high technical debt or architectural risk and lead remediation initiatives; define and track technical KPIs tied to architecture decisions.
Act as a technical mentor for senior engineers and tech leads, fostering a culture of thoughtful design, documentation, and constructive technical debate; lead by influence- help teams make better decisions instead of making every decision for them.