Clasp · 1 month ago
Data Platform Architect, Team Lead
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$155K/yr - $190K/yr
5+ years expClasp is a venture-backed startup transforming access to education and career pathways. The Data Platform Architect will lead the design, build-out, and operation of the data infrastructure, ensuring reliable data movement and partnering with analytics teams to optimize data models.
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Responsibilities
Own the architecture, roadmap, and operational health of the data-orchestration layer (ingestion, transformation, movement, observability) across internal systems, go-to-market systems (CRM, CS, etc.), and the data warehouse
Lead a team of data engineers/ETL analysts on day-to-day project work
Define and enforce data pipelines' SLAs, error-recovery strategies, schema change management, metadata/lineage documentation
Lead cross-system interoperability work: identify how data flows between source systems, warehouse, downstream consumers; design abstractions; reduce redundancy and latency
Partner with reporting/analytics teams to ensure data models (via e.g., dbt) align with consumption needs, but shift ownership of reporting to those teams
Own and evolve tooling around data quality, observability, lineage, and cataloging; propose infrastructure improvements
Present to leadership on data-infrastructure health, trade-offs (speed vs. reliability), investment needs, and outcomes. Responsible for P&L management for data infrastructure and tools
Evangelize “data as product/infrastructure” mindset across the organization: define APIs, data contracts, service level commitments to downstream analytics users
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in data engineering / data infrastructure roles, of which 2+ years managing/leading other engineers or architects
Proven track record designing and implementing data pipelines/infrastructure across multiple source systems into a data warehouse/lakehouse environment
Expert experience with orchestration tooling (e.g., Airflow, Dagster), ingestion frameworks, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and data-warehouse technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc)
Expert experience with data modeling, semantic layers (dbt or equivalent), metadata/lineage tooling, data quality frameworks
Strong knowledge of API design, data contracts, system interoperability, micro-services or event-driven data architectures is a plus
Prior experience partnering with analytics/business teams (even if not owning dashboards) — able to translate needs into infrastructure requirements and deliver
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to present to senior leadership and cross-functional audiences
Experience building or improving observability, monitoring, alerting for data pipelines
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent (or equivalent real-world experience). Master's or additional certifications are a plus
Benefits
Equity component as part of our compensation package
Company
Clasp
🚀 Company Overview 🚀 Clasp (formerly Stride Funding) is a venture-based, mission-driven fintech headquartered in Boston, MA.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$160.85MKey Investors
Crosslink CapitalEncina Lender FinanceFirework Ventures
2024-09-17Series B· $10.15M
2022-03-30Debt Financing· $105M
2021-12-02Series A· $12M
Leadership Team
Tess Michaels
Founder & CEO
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David Kafafian
Chief Operating Officer
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