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Platform Architect

Job in Alameda, Alameda County, California, 94501, USA
Listing for: UsefulBI Corporation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-03
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Data Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Data Analyst
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 100000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

ROLE OVERVIE

WWe are seeking an experienced Data Platform Lead for designing and implementation of an enterprise grade, AI-ready data platform — spanning cloud storage, data engineering pipelines, governance-ready data products, and GenAI / RAG workloads. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise with AWS-native services, Databricks, and modern data stack tools, with a strategic mindset to architect platforms delivering governed, AI consumable datasets at scale

KEY RESPONSIBILITI
  • ES1. Storage & Platform Foundati
  • on Architect the AWS Data Platform:
    Amazon S3, Athena, Redshift, and AWS Lake Formation for governed acce
  • ss Design and operate Databricks Lakehouse (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Comput
  • e)
    Ensure secure, scalable, and cost-optimized foundational infrastructure aligned to enterprise SL
  • erLead data engineering pipelines using dbt (transformations & modeling) and Databricks (ML Runtime, Notebook
  • s)
    Implement Data Quality & Testing using SODA; design Workflow Orchestration with monitoring and alerti
  • ng Drive a shift-left engineering culture with reusable, well-documented pipeline
3. Data Products Layer — AI-Ready Datase
  • ts Define and build domain-owned, AI-ready Data Products (Customer 360, Patient 360, Clinical, Commercial, Feature-Ready, and RAG-Ready dataset
  • s)
    Champion a Data Mesh / Data Product mindset with clear ownership, SLAs, and discoverabili
ty4. Governance & Catalog Lay
  • er Implement unified data governance using Atlan (Governance & Catalog) for discoverability, lineage, trust, and contr
  • ol Establish end-to-end Data Lineage tracking (data to production) using classification taggi
  • ng Define and enforce Policies & Access controls: RBAC/ABAC, PII/PHI tagging, sensitive data classification, and policy enforceme
  • nt Drive AI Governance practices: AI data usage policies, model lineage, bias detection, and audit readine
  • ss Ensure Quality & Trust standards: data quality SLAs, certification workflows, and DQ dashboar
ds5. AI & Advanced Analytics Enableme
  • nt Architect data infrastructure supporting ML Models (predictive, prescriptive, optimization) and GenAI/RAG pipelin
  • es Design pipelines for LLM apps, copilots, and knowledge search; support real-time Decision Syste
  • ms Collaborate with domain teams to build Domain-Owned AI & ML models on governed, trusted da
ta6. Cross-Cutting Capabiliti
  • es Security & Compliance:
    End-to-end data security, IAM, encryption, and audit-ready regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC
  • 2)
    Monitoring & Observability:
    Platform-level data and model observability, pipeline health dashboar
  • ds

    Collaboration:

    Tools and practices to connect people, knowledge, and data across the organizati
REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATI
  • rage
    10+ years of experience in data architecture and cloud platf
  • orms

    Deep expertise with AWS services: S3, Athena, Redshift, Lake Formation, Glue,
  • IAMProficiency in Databricks:
    Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, ML
  • flow Experience with data lakehouse architecture patterns and medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / G
  • ation

    Strong hands-on expertise with dbt (data build tool) for SQL-based transformations and data modeling

    Pipeline orchestration experience:
    Apache Airflow, Databricks Workflows, or equiv
  • alent

    Data quality tooling: SODA, Great Expectations, or Monte
  • Carlo Proficiency in Python, SQL, and
  • Spark
Spark Data Governance & C
  • atalog

    Experience implementing data catalogs and governance tools (Atlan, Collibra, Alation, or equiv
  • alent)
    Knowledge of data lineage, metadata management, classification fram
  • eworks

    Understanding of RBAC/ABAC, PII/PHI regulations, and policy enforcement at the platform
level AI & GenAI Re
  • adiness

    Experience building Feature Stores and ML-ready datasets for model training and inf
  • erence.

    Familiarity with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture: chunking, embedding generation, vector
  • stores

    Understanding of LLMOps, model observability, and AI governance fra
  • meworks

    Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or Databricks Vector
  • adership

    Proven ability to design and document enterprise data architecture using frameworks like TOGAF or
  • Zachman Strong stakeholder engagement skills — ability to translate business needs into technical…
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