Senior Data Architect - Data Platform

The company seeks a Senior Data Architect to manage the foundational infrastructure for the data platform. Responsibilities include adopting Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, building governed CI/CD pipelines, designing rollback orchestration, enforcing cost-allocation tagging, and chairing the Change Advisory Board. The role also involves publishing reference architecture and advising leadership on technology choices.

Adopt Terraform as the infrastructure standard for 100% of new and existing data-platform infrastructure; run weekly drift detection; design a reusable, versioned, documented module library.

Build the governed CI / CD spine — every code change validated against pipeline-standard compliance, approval, and auto Jira update; target sub-hour deployment lead time and 100% coverage of core repos.

Design and test rollback orchestration with sub-15-minute recovery; run quarterly game days.

Enforce cost-allocation tagging policy (team, domain, environment, project) on every cloud resource; publish baseline cost report and per-model / per-use-case attribution; author the Cost Optimization Playbook.

Chair the Change Advisory Board — lineage gate, audit trail, centralized tracking; impact-assess every system / schema change before approval.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

8+ years in data / cloud engineering, with 4+ years in architect or staff / principal-equivalent roles owning platform-wide standards.

Deep cloud experience on at least one major hyperscaler (Azure strongly preferred; AWS / GCP transferable for the right candidate).

Production experience with Databricks or equivalent lakehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery).

Terraform at scale — module design, state management, drift handling, environment promotion.

CI / CD for data systems — notebook deployments, pipeline configs, schema migrations, blue / green for data jobs.

FinOps leadership — owned a cost-reduction target with measurable, attributable results.

Strong on IAM, networking, encryption, secrets management in regulated cloud environments; can author crisp ADRs and chair an Architecture Review Board.

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