Staff Data Architect: AI Data Foundations & Platform

Checkbox; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Learning budget

Flexible leave

Salary sacrifice options

CBD Sydney office snacks

Job summary

Checkbox is seeking a Staff Data Engineer / Data Architect in Sydney. You will own the data and AI reference architecture across Checkbox's product ecosystem, partnering with Product, Engineering, AI and Platform teams.

This hands-on leadership role reports to the VP of Engineering and shapes the data strategy for agentic-first products. You will design secure, tenant-isolated data access patterns, evaluate data stores, warehouses and vector/semantic layers, and drive pragmatic, scalable data

Qualifications

• Significant experience in senior data engineering or data architecture roles.
• Proven track record building data and context foundations that power AI products in production.
• Strong design skills for data architectures spanning transactional, operational, analytical and AI-ready systems.
• Deep understanding of data platform patterns, data contracts, event-driven architectures, governance and observability.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS data isolation, tenancy and access control.

Responsibilities

• Own the data and AI reference architecture across Checkbox's product ecosystem.
• Define how base data sources, intelligence services, APIs, MCP surfaces, context engines and retrieval layers fit together.
• Design patterns to let product streams build AI features on shared foundations.
• Establish architectural principles for storage, retrieval, serving, tenancy and compliance.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, AI and Platform teams to implement the architecture.

Skills

Senior data engineer

Data architecture

AI data foundations

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

Pub/Sub

Vector search

Knowledge graphs

Job description

Checkbox is seeking a Staff Data Engineer / Data Architect in Sydney. You will own the data and AI reference architecture across Checkbox's product ecosystem, partnering with Product, Engineering, AI and Platform teams.

This hands-on leadership role reports to the VP of Engineering and shapes the data strategy for agentic-first products. You will design secure, tenant-isolated data access patterns, evaluate data stores, warehouses and vector/semantic layers, and drive pragmatic, scalable data