Data Architect: Real-Time, Data Mesh & AI

dLocal; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 120,729,000 - 211,276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Fintech industry environment

Referral bonus program

Work From Anywhere up to 3 months/year

Job summary

dLocal is seeking a Data Architect to provide the technical direction for its data and analytics architecture. You will shape a scalable, governed data ecosystem across Data & AI and engineering—connecting data products, real-time platforms, analytical workloads, ML use cases, and business-facing data delivery.

You will act as a senior technical reference, translating business needs into pragmatic designs balancing scalability, latency, security, and cost.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience designing scalable data architectures.
• Experience with data-mesh and data-product ownership, governance, and self-serve platforms.
• Strong background in streaming/event-driven systems (Kafka/Kinesis; Flink/Spark).
• Knowledge of semantic layers, canonical data models, and metadata governance.
• Proficiency with cloud data platforms (AWS/GCP); Databricks concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise data architectures and reference patterns across batch, streaming, lakehouse, and warehouses.
• Advise teams on data scope, governance, and architectural direction.
• Lead data-mesh adoption including data as a product and federated governance.
• Establish standards for data products, pipelines, ingestion, storage, and observability.
• Oversee SLAs around latency, cost, quality, and production reliability.
• Govern streaming architectures (Kafka/Kinesis, Spark/Flink, Databricks).
• Shape semantic layers and ontologies for cross-domain consistency.
• Guide MLOps, feature stores, and online/offline data serving.
• Collaborate with domain teams on data ownership and access controls.
• Mentor data engineers, platform teams, and ML engineers.

Skills

Data architecture

Data mesh

Streaming architectures

Event-driven design

Semantic modeling

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

MLOps & feature stores

Stakeholder management

Communication

Governance & security

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Flink

Spark Structured Streaming

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Iceberg

Airflow

dbt

SQL

Python

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

dLocal is seeking a Data Architect to provide the technical direction for its data and analytics architecture. You will shape a scalable, governed data ecosystem across Data & AI and engineering—connecting data products, real-time platforms, analytical workloads, ML use cases, and business-facing data delivery.

You will act as a senior technical reference, translating business needs into pragmatic designs balancing scalability, latency, security, and cost.