
Data Architecture Lead
Deckers Brands
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Arizona • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,000 - $165,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Partner with the Director, Data Architecture to implement enterprise data architecture standards and ensure consistent adoption across domains and initiatives
- Lead architecture design for assigned domains and initiatives, including conceptual, logical, and physical data structures aligned to business requirements and data products
- Define and maintain domain-aligned data definitions and semantic consistency to support a unified understanding of key business entities and metrics
- Develop architecture patterns that support batch and streaming use cases, including event-driven data flows and canonical representations
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to translate architecture designs into scalable physical implementations on AWS cloud data platforms
- Participate in architecture and design reviews, providing guidance, feedback, and enforcement of standards for new data products and platform changes
- Partner with governance teams to align architecture with data quality, privacy, security, access controls, classification, retention, and metadata requirements
- Maintain architecture artifacts and documentation in a central repository, including definitions, reference designs, and decision records to improve reuse and consistency
- Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders to capture requirements, refine definitions, and align on domain boundaries and ownership
- Identify architecture gaps and improvement opportunities, and recommend practical enhancements to standards, patterns, and tooling that improve scalability and interoperability
- Coach and enable engineers and analysts on architecture expectations and best practices through working sessions, office hours, and documentation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field; Master’s degree preferred
- 8 to 12 years of experience in data architecture and related roles
- Experience designing architecture in modern cloud-based data ecosystems, including AWS-based platforms
- Experience supporting domain-oriented data products, data mesh concepts, and event-driven approaches preferred
- Experience with metadata management, data cataloging, and lineage concepts and platforms
- Strong expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data architecture across diverse technology stacks
- Strong understanding of modern data architecture concepts including domain-driven design, data products, and event-driven data flows
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable and reusable architecture designs
- Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and influencing skills across technical and business teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities combined with a results-driven mindset
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed, and global environment
Benefits
- Competitive Pay and Bonuses
- Financial Planning and wellbeing
- Time away from work
- Extras, discounts and perks
- Growth and Development
- Health and Wellness
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturecloud-based data ecosystemsAWSmetadata managementdata catalogingdata lineageconceptual data architecturelogical data architecturephysical data architectureevent-driven data flows
Soft Skills
collaborationfacilitationinfluencinganalytical skillsproblem-solvingresults-driven mindset
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree