Data Platform Architect

Role overview

Lead the architecture and hands-on evolution of an operational data platform that brings together information from internal systems, vendors, and partners. The role focuses on moving beyond batch-oriented integrations toward dependable, near-real-time data flows, while setting durable standards for data models, security, and platform operations.

Responsibilities

- Design end-to-end platform architecture for ingesting and processing streaming data, including patterns using Kafka, Flink, and Debezium or comparable tools. - Work with producer and consumer teams to define versioned canonical models, data contracts, and practices for sharing data internally and externally. - Establish governance, role-based access controls, and safeguards for sensitive health information and external data exchange. - Assess and select technologies for real-time data processing in line with compliance needs and platform direction. - Guide complex technical decisions by weighing delivery time, cost, complexity, and architectural risk. - Coach engineering and operations teams, and help identify practical opportunities to support AI use cases.

Requirements

- 8–15 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud data integrations, streaming pipelines, or operational data movement. - Strong practical knowledge of Kafka, Flink, Debezium or similar systems, stateful stream processing, and exactly-once delivery concepts. - Extensive AWS experience and a strong understanding of data observability, including freshness, volume, schema, distribution, and lineage. - Healthcare experience and knowledge of HIPAA, electronic protected health information, and secure data exchange. - Expert SQL and Python skills; familiarity with a JVM language such as Java is preferred. - Ability to lead ambiguous work independently and explain technical decisions to business and executive audiences.

Nice to have

Experience at a venture-backed startup.

Benefits and work setup

Benefits described include flexible paid time off, health and wellness coverage, paid holidays, up to 16 weeks of parental leave, retirement savings, transportation perks, education reimbursement, alternative medicine coverage, and two paid pet-care days.