Irth · 10 hours ago
Senior Data Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$130K/yr - $160K/yr
8+ years expIrth is building a modern, multi-cloud, enterprise-grade data estate and is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design, governance, and strategic direction of this platform. The role involves collaborating with data engineering teams to implement a robust architecture, ensure data governance and security, and enable scalable analytics and AI/ML capabilities.
Asset ManagementCloud ComputingComputerSoftwareTelecommunications
Responsibilities
Strategic Architecture & Design (Primary Responsibility)
Design the high‑level and detailed architecture blueprint for Irth's new Databricks‑based data estate, including lakehouse patterns, medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), and semantic layers
Develop a multi‑cloud ingestion and consolidation strategy for data sourced from AWS (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), Azure (SQL MI, Storage Accounts), GCP, and on‑prem systems
Define patterns for data lineage, metadata management, data quality, CDC/SCD, streaming and batch ingestion, and federated query capabilities
Establish an enterprise‑level data governance model, including classification schemas, residency rules, cataloging (Unity Catalog), retention policies, and security standards
Partner with security and compliance teams to enforce GDPR, PIPEDA, Australian Privacy Act, SOC 2, and other regulatory requirements
Architect for scalability, reliability, cost‑efficiency, and support of downstream analytics, reporting, GIS workflows, and AI/ML workloads
Produce architectural documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and design standards / best practices
Implementation Leadership & Engineering Partnership
Collaborate closely with a distributed team of data engineers to implement ingestion pipelines, Delta Lake storage patterns, orchestration workflows, and Databricks Lakeflow components
Provide technical leadership, code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands‑on support when needed
Ensure architecture is implemented consistently across tenants, clouds, products, and engineering teams
Work with DevOps/Platform teams on infrastructure, identity, networking, VPC/VNet, and CI/CD integration
Establish monitoring, observability, and operational governance for the data estate
Data Governance, Security & Compliance
Define and enforce RBAC/ABAC policies, encryption standards, audit logging, and tenant‑level isolation
Partner with governance teams to unify metadata and lineage across all sources via Unity Catalog and Purview integration
Ensure ongoing compliance with data residency and cloud‑specific regulatory constraints
Develop standards for retention, archival, disaster recovery, and cross‑region protections
Analytics, AI/ML, and Product Enablement
Architect support for operational reporting, BI (Power BI, Databricks SQL), semantic modeling, and consumption patterns
Design foundations enabling AI/ML use cases such as predictive risk modeling, summarization, geospatial analytics, and LLM‑driven insights
Advance a BI‑tool‑agnostic semantic model strategy for consistent business definitions across products
Thought Leadership & Collaboration
Serve as Irth's senior expert on Databricks Lakehouse architecture, modern data engineering, and multi‑cloud data strategy
Mentor engineers and analysts in best practices for data modeling, governance, pipeline design, and scalable architectures
Partner with product teams, executives, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical data solutions
Participate in vendor evaluations, roadmap planning, and architectural governance boards
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or platform architecture, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role
Deep expertise with Databricks (Azure preferred), including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouses, Lakehouse design, and pipeline orchestration
Strong experience building multi‑cloud or hybrid data architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Expert in medallion architecture, lakehouse design patterns, metadata management, lineage, and enterprise governance
Advanced SQL and experience with one or more: Python, Scala, PySpark, Spark SQL
Strong understanding of security, compliance, RBAC/ABAC, encryption, and data residency considerations
Experience with CDC, SCD Type 1/2, streaming ingestion, batch pipelines, and workload performance optimization
Demonstrated ability to translate highly complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences
Strong documentation, diagramming, architectural review, and communication skills
Preferred
Experience with Unity Catalog-Purview integration and enterprise metadata strategies
Background in geospatial data, operational risk modeling, or AI/ML enablement
Knowledge of Power BI semantic modeling or BI‑platform‑agnostic semantic layer design
Experience with highly regulated or multi‑tenant data environments
Certifications: Databricks Data Engineer Professional, Databricks Architect, Azure Data Architect, AWS/GCP data certifications
Benefits
Health plans options including medical, dental, & vision
401k (US), RSP (Canada) + company match
Flexible PTO policy plus company-paid holidays
Benefits options such as health insurance, life insurance, discounts and perks programs
Generous "work from home" stipend to get you started
Team events including monthly lunches for everyone, volunteer outings, and quarterly gatherings
Hybrid employees have access to snacks, beverages and coffee at our Columbus office
Company
Irth
Companies in the energy, gas utility, electric utility, municipality, contract locator, telecom and media industries have trusted Irth to enhance the resilience of their critical network infrastructure with our market-leading SaaS cloud-based technology for managing 811 tickets, land rights, and risk.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Bregal Sagemount
2025-08-26Acquired
2015-07-20Private Equity
2010-12-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Brad Gammons
Chief Executive Officer irth Solutions
Rod Ball
Chief Technology Officer
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