Senior software engineer building backend data services, APIs, microservices, and pipelines for Akamai’s distributed cloud platform. Optimizing databases and reliability across high - scale workloads.
About the role
- Data Architect governing World Vision Canada's nonprofit enterprise data architecture. Defining cloud data standards, governance, security and reusable platforms remotely within Canada.
Responsibilities
- Design the enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical and physical architecture, data platforms, canonical data models and governing standards
- Develop and present data architecture, roadmap and material design decisions to senior leadership
- Define data integration and interoperability standards, including contract-first patterns, interfaces, schema contracts and secure data-sharing standards
- Architect governed, reusable data products, master data structures, consolidated master records and analytical models
- Establish data quality, master data management, retention and remediation standards
- Set standards for AI and machine learning data use and platform portability
- Establish data security, classification, protection and access-control standards for sensitive data
- Produce and maintain data models, reference architectures, data-flow diagrams, architecture decision records and standards documentation
- Govern solution and vendor designs through delivery, review alignment, guide implementation and adjust architecture as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- Enterprise-architecture or cloud data-platform certification, for example TOGAF or a recognized cloud data credential (Preferred)
- Ten or more years working in data management disciplines such as data modelling, data engineering or data science
- Five or more years in data architecture, including lakehouse or warehouse-native patterns and batch and streaming data flows in Snowflake and other cloud data platforms
- Accountability for an enterprise data architecture, setting standards adopted across delivery teams and vendors, and presenting architecture direction to senior leadership
- Experience delivering master-data and golden-record solutions, governed reusable data products, and warehouse-native customer data platforms
- Experience setting data design direction for solution architects and delivery partners
- Experience designing data protection, classification and access controls for sensitive data
- Experience in a nonprofit or mission-driven organization (Preferred)
- Defining data and API contracts, schema registries and contract testing
- Advanced conceptual, logical and physical data modelling; relational and dimensional modelling; strong SQL
- Familiarity with dbt, ELT patterns and orchestration tooling
- Familiarity with Python or similar scripting languages
- Understanding of CI/CD and automated data testing, including contract and schema testing
- Command of data mesh, data fabric and lakehouse paradigms
- Familiarity with data catalog and metadata management tooling
- Proficiency with ArchiMate or UML and architecture modelling tools
- Experience working in Enterprise Agile frameworks
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to build agreement across technical and business teams
- Sound judgement in complex and ambiguous design problems
- Ability to document design decisions, apply standards consistently and support recommendations with evidence
Benefits
- Health Spending Account
- Up to 6% matched pension contributions
- Parental leave top-up
- Generous paid vacation, sick days, wellness and personal days
- Office closed extra days before long weekends (6x/year)
- Canada and GTA top employer awards
- Agile mindset workplace
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