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Senior Architect
Apolis
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- Senior
- 19 hours ago
- $70 – $85 / hour
- dbt
- Snowflake
- Streamlit
- CI/CD
- IaC
- AWS
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Informatica
- ETL
- ELT
- Python
- Devops
- Machine Learning
- Data Modeling
- GitHub
19 hours ago
The Senior Architect will design solutions aligned with enterprise data architecture standards and help define new patterns where standards need to evolve.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable infrastructure, data pipelines, deployment patterns, and reusable frameworks that can be adopted across the broader organization.
TIMELINE: The first batch of resumes will be sent to the hiring manager on Wednesday, October 28th at 3pm AZ time.
JOB DETAILS:
This is not a contract-to-hire role
This role is required to abide by AZ core working hours (9am-4pm, AZ time)
AZ local is preferred
PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Solution Architecture: Design end-to-end technical solutions for the platform modernization initiative, ensuring alignment with enterprise data architecture standards.
Standards and Governance: Apply existing architecture standards where appropriate and define new patterns where gaps exist, such as Streamlit application deployment and CI/CD practices.
Cloud and Infrastructure as Code: Design and build modular, multi-environment AWS infrastructure using Terraform to support computing, storage, and orchestration needs.
CI/CD Engineering: Build and maintain reusable, secure deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions for data pipelines and application deployments.
Monitoring & Observability: Design monitoring, auditing, and alerting mechanisms across the pipeline and infrastructure to ensure reliability, traceability, and rapid issue detection.
Data Platform Modernization: Lead the technical approach for migrating legacy processes and Informatica PowerCenter/IICS to dbt-core and Snowflake while restructuring models into bronze, silver, and gold layers.
Documentation: Maintain clear architecture diagrams, design decisions, runbooks, and technical documentation for the platform, ensuring knowledge is accessible and current for engineers and stakeholders.
Technical Leadership: Review code and pull requests, participate in daily meetings, sprint ceremonies and shape deliverables, and serve as a technical escalation point across the modernization initiative.
QUALIFICATIONS
5+ years of experience in a senior data or software architecture role, with production experience across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and application development.
5+ years of experience with legacy ETL/ELT platforms such as Informatica PowerCenter or IICS, with the ability to analyze & translate existing mappings/workflows.
Strong hands-on experience with building/supporting dbt-core and Snowflake
Experience with building components for medallion architecture, including bronze, silver, and gold data layers.
Proficiency in Python, with experience building or supporting web applications such as Streamlit.
Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code for modular, multi-environment cloud infrastructure.
Experience with CI/CD platforms and modern DevOps practices.
NICE TO HAVE / BONUS SKILLS (NOT MANDATORY)
Understanding machine learning concepts and how ML workflows integrate with data platforms.
Experience with data product design and delivery, including treating datasets and pipelines as consumable products.
Data modeling skills beyond medallion architecture layers, including dimensional modeling and star schema design.
Knowledge of R scripting, Snowflake/AWS certifications
TECHNOLOGY STACK
Snowflake, dbt-core, Streamlit, AWS, Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Python, SQL Server, Informatica Powercenter/IICS. Equivalent experience with comparable tools and platforms will also be considered.
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