
Senior Data Architect
ŌURA
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $172,550 - $203,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect & Model: Design and manage data domains to enable the creation of interoperable, trustworthy data products.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Build and optimize Oura’s Data Lakehouse leveraging Databricks, Google Big Query, and Snowflake to process Terabyte-Petabyte scale data.
- Data Mesh Governance: Implement federated data governance within the data mesh to ensure processes meet privacy, compliance (HIPAA/PHI), and security requirements.
- Collaborate: Partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Business Domain owners to advocate for unified analytics and modeling best practices.
- AI Readiness: Design vector-based data architectures and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns to enable LLM reporting and Agentic AI.
- Standardization: Establish scalable data management frameworks and a governed data dictionary to enable organizational self-service.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data architecture or modeling, with a strong technical foundation in cloud-based platforms (AWS, GCP, Databricks or Azure).
- Multi-Cloud Expertise: Hands-on expertise in major cloud platforms including AWS (S3, Kinesis, Glue, Athena), GCP (BigQuery, VertexAI), or Azure.
- Modern Data Warehousing: Proficiency in designing and managing cloud-native warehouses like Snowflake or Google BigQuery.
- Lakehouse Architecture: Ability to build and operate a Unified Global Lakehouse that merges the flexibility of a data lake with the management of a warehouse.
- Data Mesh Principles: Familiarity with the Data Mesh approach, specifically managing federated data governance and decentralized data ownership.
- Lifecycle Management: Capability to lead the entire data lifecycle, from initial data definition to final delivery and consumption.
- Standardization: Expertise in Master Data Management (MDM) and Reference Data Management (RDM) to ensure consistency across the enterprise.
- Schema Design: Proficiency in using modern formats like Iceberg and transformation tools like dbt to maintain high-quality data structures including dbt Cloud on Databricks for SQL-based modeling (bronze/silver/gold).
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
collaborationadvocacystandardization