Company Summary
Irth Solutions is a software product company building cutting-edge technology platforms that continuously set industry benchmarks. With a strong product culture, collaborative environment, and high growth potential, Irth offers an exciting opportunity to work on modern, enterprise-scale data platforms. We are currently hiring a Senior Data Architect to lead our enterprise data architecture initiatives.
Job Summary
Irth is building a modern, enterprise-grade, multi-cloud data estate using a Databricks Lakehouse platform that consolidates data across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem systems.
The Senior Data Architect will lead the design, governance, and implementation strategy of this unified data platform. This is a high-impact technical leadership role responsible for defining architecture standards, ensuring governance and security compliance, and enabling scalable analytics, reporting, and AI/ML capabilities.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Architecture & Design
· Design the enterprise architecture for the Databricks Lakehouse, including medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and semantic layers.
· Develop multi-cloud data ingestion and consolidation strategies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem systems.
· Define standards for data lineage, metadata management, data quality, CDC/SCD, streaming, and batch ingestion.
· Establish enterprise data governance frameworks, including classification, cataloging (Unity Catalog), retention, and security policies.
· Ensure compliance with global regulatory standards such as GDPR, PIPEDA, Australian Privacy Act, and SOC 2.
· Architect scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions to support analytics, reporting, GIS, and AI/ML workloads.
· Create architecture documentation, standards, and best practices.
2. Implementation Leadership & Engineering Partnership
· Collaborate with data engineering teams to implement pipelines, Delta Lake storage, and Databricks workflows.
· Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and code reviews.
· Ensure consistent architecture implementation across products, tenants, and cloud environments.
· Work with DevOps teams on infrastructure, networking, identity management, and CI/CD integration.
· Establish monitoring, observability, and operational governance processes.
3. Data Governance, Security & Compliance
· Define and enforce security policies including RBAC/ABAC, encryption, and audit logging.
· Integrate enterprise metadata and lineage using Unity Catalog and Purview.
· Ensure compliance with data residency, regulatory, and cloud-specific requirements.
· Develop standards for data retention, archival, and disaster recovery.
4. Analytics, AI/ML & Product Enablement
· Design architecture supporting BI tools such as Power BI and Databricks SQL.
· Enable advanced analytics, predictive modeling, geospatial analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
· Establish semantic modeling standards to ensure consistent business definitions across products.
5. Leadership & Collaboration
· Serve as a subject matter expert in Databricks Lakehouse and multi-cloud data architecture.
· Mentor engineering teams on data modeling, governance, and scalable architecture practices.
· Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
· Participate in architectural governance, vendor evaluations, and roadmap planning.
Skills & Experience
Required:
· 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or platform architecture, including 3+ years in a senior or leadership role.
· Strong expertise in Databricks (preferably Azure), including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouses, and Lakehouse architecture.
· Experience designing multi-cloud or hybrid architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
· Expertise in medallion architecture, metadata management, and enterprise data governance.
· Advanced SQL skills and experience with Python, Scala, PySpark, or Spark SQL.
· Experience with CDC, SCD Type 1/2, streaming pipelines, and batch processing.
· Strong knowledge of security, compliance, encryption, and data governance standards.
· Excellent documentation, communication, and architectural design skills.
Preferred:
· Experience integrating Unity Catalog with Purview or similar metadata tools.
· Knowledge of AI/ML, geospatial analytics, or predictive modeling platforms.
· Experience with Power BI semantic modeling or enterprise BI architecture.
· Experience in regulated or multi-tenant data environments.
· Relevant certifications such as Databricks Architect, Azure Data Architect, or AWS/GCP certifications.
EDUCATION
· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Benefits
WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU
· Being an integral part of a dynamic, growing company that is well respected in its industry.
· Competitive pay based on experience.
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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