Senior Data Platform Architect — Real-Time & AI

Human Ventures, LLC.; España; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ookla is seeking a Data Architect to join the solutions architecture team to evolve our data platform powering Speedtest and related products. You will design scalable data models, storages and pipelines for real-time analytics and AI/ML integration while ensuring compliance.

You will collaborate with data science, product engineering and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical vision, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software and data architectures, with a focus on designing large-scale data lakehouses.
• Expert level fluency in programming (Python, Go or Java) and strong working knowledge of SQL, databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Iceberg, Athena).
• Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures to process high volume data using tools like Spark.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and modern data architectures like data lakehouses.
• Experience with AI/ML is nice to have.
• Proven ability to balance immediate delivery with long-term architectural integrity while managing technical debt.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• 6+ years of relevant data engineering experience.
• Background check is required.

Responsibilities

• Creating and evolving architectural roadmaps for the data platform, ensuring alignment with product goals and long-term technical scalability.
• Turn product requirements to viable and scalable data architectures and implementations in a high data volume environment.
• Acting as a bridge between data science, product engineering, and stakeholders to translate business strategy into technical vision.
• Establish and follow data governance frameworks, standards, and best practices to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.
• Raising the technical bar by mentoring senior engineers and architects on complex data modeling and distributed system challenges.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

SQL

Spark

Data modeling

Data lakehouses

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Iceberg

Athena

Job description

Ookla is seeking a Data Architect to join the solutions architecture team to evolve our data platform powering Speedtest and related products. You will design scalable data models, storages and pipelines for real-time analytics and AI/ML integration while ensuring compliance.

You will collaborate with data science, product engineering and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical vision, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar.