Senior Data Architect

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Architect as part of our unified data mesh platform. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Data Management, this role will be responsible for setting the data foundations and models for our Data Products to accelerate our business growth, deepen our product and membership understanding, and optimize our business operations.

We are looking for a Data Architect/Modeler with deep expertise in modern cloud architectures and the Data Mesh approach. You will be responsible for designing the structural foundations of our data products, ensuring they are interoperable, scalable, and trustworthy. You will bridge the gap between complex business requirements and high-performance technical design, acting as the primary blueprint designer for our global data lifecycle.

• 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.

Experience:

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 (Big Query, VertexAI), or Azure
  .
• Modern Data Warehousing: Proficiency in designing and managing cloud-native warehouses like Snowflake or Google Big Query
  .
• 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.
• Containerization & Workflows:
  
  Experience with
  Docker, Pulumi and various workflow engines to manage complex data processing tasks.
• 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).

• AI/ML Integration: Experience with production-quality AI/ML and predictive modeling, leveraging platforms like VertexAI and MLOps frameworks.
• LLM & NLP Design: Skill in designing architectures for Large Language Models (LLM) using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector-based data designs.
• Automated Insights: Ability to design systems for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and automated reporting.
• Ag…