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Irth Solutions

Senior Data Architect

full-time Hybrid

AI overview

Lead the design and governance of a multi-cloud data estate using Databricks, enabling scalable analytics and AI/ML insights across diverse data sources.

About the Role

Irth is building a modern, multi‑cloud, enterprise‑grade data estate—a unified Databricks‑based platform that consolidates data across all Irth products, spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design, governance, and strategic direction of this data estate and to work closely with data engineering teams to bring it to life.

This is a high‑impact, highly visible technical leadership role responsible for defining the medallion architecture, ensuring robust governance and security, and enabling scalable analytics, AI/ML, and cross‑product insights.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Architecture & Design (Primary Responsibility)

  • Design the high‑level and detailed architecture blueprint for Irth’s new Databricks‑based data estate, including lakehouse patterns, medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), and semantic layers.
  • Develop a multi‑cloud ingestion and consolidation strategy for data sourced from AWS (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), Azure (SQL MI, Storage Accounts), GCP, and on‑prem systems.
  • Define patterns for data lineage, metadata management, data quality, CDC/SCD, streaming and batch ingestion, and federated query capabilities.
  • Establish an enterprise‑level data governance model, including classification schemas, residency rules, cataloging (Unity Catalog), retention policies, and security standards.
  • Partner with security and compliance teams to enforce GDPR, PIPEDA, Australian Privacy Act, SOC 2, and other regulatory requirements.
  • Architect for scalability, reliability, cost‑efficiency, and support of downstream analytics, reporting, GIS workflows, and AI/ML workloads.
  • Produce architectural documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and design standards / best practices.

2. Implementation Leadership & Engineering Partnership

  • Collaborate closely with a distributed team of data engineers to implement ingestion pipelines, Delta Lake storage patterns, orchestration workflows, and Databricks Lakeflow components.
  • Provide technical leadership, code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands‑on support when needed.
  • Ensure architecture is implemented consistently across tenants, clouds, products, and engineering teams.
  • Work with DevOps/Platform teams on infrastructure, identity, networking, VPC/VNet, and CI/CD integration.
  • Establish monitoring, observability, and operational governance for the data estate.

3. Data Governance, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce RBAC/ABAC policies, encryption standards, audit logging, and tenant‑level isolation.
  • Partner with governance teams to unify metadata and lineage across all sources via Unity Catalog and Purview integration.
  • Ensure ongoing compliance with data residency and cloud‑specific regulatory constraints.
  • Develop standards for retention, archival, disaster recovery, and cross‑region protections.

4. Analytics, AI/ML, and Product Enablement

  • Architect support for operational reporting, BI (Power BI, Databricks SQL), semantic modeling, and consumption patterns.
  • Design foundations enabling AI/ML use cases such as predictive risk modeling, summarization, geospatial analytics, and LLM‑driven insights.
  • Advance a BI‑tool‑agnostic semantic model strategy for consistent business definitions across products.

5. Thought Leadership & Collaboration

  • Serve as Irth’s senior expert on Databricks Lakehouse architecture, modern data engineering, and multi‑cloud data strategy.
  • Mentor engineers and analysts in best practices for data modeling, governance, pipeline design, and scalable architectures.
  • Partner with product teams, executives, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical data solutions.
  • Participate in vendor evaluations, roadmap planning, and architectural governance boards.

Requirements

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or platform architecture, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role.
  • Deep expertise with Databricks (Azure preferred), including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouses, Lakehouse design, and pipeline orchestration.
  • Strong experience building multi‑cloud or hybrid data architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Expert in medallion architecture, lakehouse design patterns, metadata management, lineage, and enterprise governance.
  • Advanced SQL and experience with one or more: Python, Scala, PySpark, Spark SQL.
  • Strong understanding of security, compliance, RBAC/ABAC, encryption, and data residency considerations.
  • Experience with CDC, SCD Type 1/2, streaming ingestion, batch pipelines, and workload performance optimization.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate highly complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
  • Strong documentation, diagramming, architectural review, and communication skills.

Preferred

  • Experience with Unity Catalog–Purview integration and enterprise metadata strategies.
  • Background in geospatial data, operational risk modeling, or AI/ML enablement.
  • Knowledge of Power BI semantic modeling or BI‑platform‑agnostic semantic layer design.
  • Experience with highly regulated or multi‑tenant data environments.
  • Certifications: Databricks Data Engineer Professional, Databricks Architect, Azure Data Architect, AWS/GCP data certifications.

High-Level Success Metrics

  • Unified Databricks Lakehouse deployed with all product/tenant data ingested.
  • High‑quality lineage coverage and governance adoption.
  • Compliance with all residency and regulatory policies.
  • Reduction in engineering overhead and faster delivery of analytics/AI use cases.
  • Positive adoption and satisfaction across engineering, product, and analytics teams.

 

Benefits

  • Join a dynamic, growing company that is well respected in its industry.
  • Competitive salary
  • Health plans options including medical, dental, & vision
  • 401k (US), RSP (Canada) + company match 
  • Flexible PTO policy plus company-paid holidays 
  • Benefits options such as health insurance, life insurance, discounts and perks programs
  • Generous “work from home” stipend to get you started
  • Team events including monthly lunches for everyone, volunteer outings, and quarterly gatherings
  • Hybrid employees have access to snacks, beverages and coffee at our Columbus office

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Health plans options including medical, dental, & vision
  • Team events and gatherings: Team events including monthly lunches for everyone, volunteer outings, and quarterly gatherings
  • Paid Time Off: Flexible PTO policy plus company-paid holidays
  • Remote-Friendly: Hybrid employees have access to snacks, beverages and coffee at our Columbus office
Irth Solutions

Above our heads and below our feet is a spiderweb of cables, pipelines, electric lines, sewer systems, telecommunications networks and more. From the assets themselves to the people that manage and maintain them, everything and everyone must work together seamlessly to ensure reliability, resiliency, safety and ongoing compliance with local and federal mandates. For decades, Irth Solutions has worked with global leaders such as Shell, ExxonMobil, T-Mobile, Verizon and more to provide industry-leading technology to help enhance the reliability and resiliency of their critical network infrastructure. We know our work is mission-critical and we are committed to our goal of responding to customer needs and continuing to innovate to deliver impactful solutions for the future. But we can’t do it alone. We need dedicated, hard-working professionals that foster a collaborative, fun and supportive environment that ensures respect and a safe place to allow ideas to flourish. At our core, we value transparency, honesty and integrity. Our team thrives on diversity and those who take responsibility, ownership and make a commitment to teamwork.At Irth Solutions, teamwork means supporting one another’s goals and celebrating collective victories. Individually, we can get our jobs done — but together, we can all achieve bold visions. Are you interested in joining Irth Solutions? Start by applying below.Irth Solutions is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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