Zifo · 3 hours ago
Senior Cloud Platforms Architect/Lead- Data Infrastructure Platforms
Alameda, CA
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
15+ years expZifo is a global R&D solutions provider focused on the industries of Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Devices. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Platforms Architect/Lead to oversee the architecture and operational excellence of their Data Infrastructure Platforms, ensuring high-quality delivery and collaboration across teams.
Data ManagementInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Serve as the onsite leader for the Data Infrastructure Platforms engineering team, ensuring high-quality and predictable delivery across initiatives
Own day-to-day execution: sprint planning, backlog refinement, grooming, reviews/demos, retrospectives, and release readiness
Manage and streamline intake, prioritization, and execution using Aha! and Jira
Partner with Offshore team leads for global execution
Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and cross-team impacts
Establish delivery metrics and continuously improve team performance
Provide architectural leadership for enterprise cloud data infrastructure and platform services
Design scalable, secure, cost-efficient reference architectures for ingestion, ELT/ETL, orchestration, and Lakehouse patterns
Review and approve solution designs ensuring alignment with architecture, security, and operational standards
Drive engineering excellence across CI/CD, observability, automation
Own infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
Establish Terraform best practices: modularization, versioning, state management
Lead GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments using Argo CD
Oversee updates to Kubernetes workloads through Argo CD workflows
Own architecture and lifecycle management for Databricks on AWS
Drive governance with Unity Catalog and integrations with metadata platforms
Define best practices for notebooks, pipelines, security, Delta Lake workflows
Serve as the onsite contact for Analytics Platforms and Data Governance
Manage intake, prioritization, solution shaping, estimation, and expectation alignment
Communicate platform strategy, standards, and decisions clearly
Own operational health: incidents, RCA, SLAs/SLOs
Drive observability, cost optimization, and compliance
Maintain documentation: architecture diagrams, SOPs, playbooks
Qualification
Required
15+ years in cloud platforms, data engineering, or enterprise architecture
Strong AWS experience (Redshift, Glue, Athena, MWAA, EKS)
Experience with Databricks, DBT, Fivetran
Strong Terraform and Argo CD expertise
Proven global team leadership
Strong Agile delivery experience
Preferred
Experience with governance/catalog tools (Atlan, Collibra, Alation)
AWS certifications
Experience with CI/CD, policy enforcement
Exposure to analytics platforms (Posit, Tableau, Spotfire, UBI)
Benefits
Accrued vacation
Medical
Dental
Vision
401k with company matching
Life insurance
Flexible spending accounts
Company
Zifo
We help science-driven organisations innovate for a better future through our full range of specialist scientific informatics services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-05-09Acquired
Leadership Team
Raj Prakash G
Co-Founder & CEO
Narasimhan Aravamudhan
Vice President - Service Delivery
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