Data Architecture Lead: AWS, Data Mesh & Governance

Deckers Brands; Colorado; Remote; USD 122,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay & bonuses

Financial planning & wellbeing

Time away from work

Extras & discounts

Job summary

Deckers Brands is seeking a Data Architecture Lead to shape our enterprise data foundation, translating standards into domain-aligned designs and partnering with engineering, analytics, and governance teams.

You will enable trusted data products, analytics, and AI use cases through modern data architecture practices that drive impact across the organization.

The role requires 8–12 years of data architecture experience and strong collaboration across a fast-paced, global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 8 to 12 years of experience in data architecture and related roles.
• Experience designing architecture in modern cloud-based data ecosystems, including AWS-based platforms.
• Experience supporting domain-oriented data products, data mesh concepts, and event-driven approaches preferred.
• Experience with metadata management, data cataloging, and lineage concepts and platforms.
• Understanding of modern data formats and storage approaches including Parquet, Iceberg, and Delta Lake.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Director, Data Architecture to implement enterprise data architecture standards and ensure consistent adoption across domains and initiatives.
• Lead architecture design for assigned domains and initiatives, including conceptual, logical, and physical data structures aligned to business requirements and data products.
• Define and maintain domain-aligned data definitions and semantic consistency to support a unified understanding of key business entities and metrics.
• Develop architecture patterns that support batch and streaming use cases, including event-driven data flows and canonical representations.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to translate architecture designs into scalable physical implementations on AWS cloud data platforms.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, providing guidance, feedback, and enforcement of standards for new data products and platform changes.
• Partner with governance teams to align architecture with data quality, privacy, security, access controls, classification, retention, and metadata requirements.
• Maintain architecture artifacts and documentation in a central repository, including definitions, reference designs, and decision records to improve reuse and consistency.
• Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders to capture requirements, refine definitions, and align on domain boundaries and ownership.
• Identify architecture gaps and improvement opportunities, and recommend practical enhancements to standards, patterns, and tooling that improve scalability and interoperability.
• Coach and enable engineers and analysts on architecture expectations and best practices through working sessions, office hours, and documentation

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

AWS

Domain-driven design

Data governance

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

Job description

Deckers Brands is seeking a Data Architecture Lead to shape our enterprise data foundation, translating standards into domain-aligned designs and partnering with engineering, analytics, and governance teams.

You will enable trusted data products, analytics, and AI use cases through modern data architecture practices that drive impact across the organization.

The role requires 8–12 years of data architecture experience and strong collaboration across a fast-paced, global environment.