Data Platform Architect — AI-Driven Data Backbone (Hybrid)

Sciemo; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sciemo is building AI for consumer brands and seeks a senior Data Architect to own the data platform that powers our AI products. You will define data entry, modeling, governance, and serving layers across cloud environments, and work hands‑on with engineers and customer‑facing teams to ship resilient data solutions.

You will shape data contracts, drive scalable pipelines, and lead with architectural decisions that enable rapid delivery while protecting customer data.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and operating production data platforms at scale.
• Deep expertise in data modeling — dimensional, normalized, and semantic layer design — and strong SQL.
• Strong Python and production‑grade engineering practices; comfort with Spark or equivalent distributed compute.
• Hands‑on experience with modern warehouse/lakehouse platforms and orchestration/transformation tooling (Airflow, dbt, Dagster, ZenML, Kedro, etc.).
• Experience supporting ML and AI workloads specifically — feature availability, training/serving consistency, and retrieval patterns.
• Working knowledge of graph data models and when they beat relational approaches.
• Practical experience with data governance, security, and privacy in a customer‑data environment.
• Strong communication skills — able to explain architectural tradeoffs to technical and non‑technical stakeholders alike.
• Startup adaptation and a bias toward shipping.

Responsibilities

• Platform & Architecture: Design and own data architecture end to end across cloud environments.
• Pipelines & Reliability: Build scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines; ensure reproducibility and observability.
• Governance & Trust: Establish data security, access control, retention, and privacy standards.
• Leadership: Set technical standards and mentor engineers; translate business needs into architectural decisions.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Spark

Warehouse/Lakehouse

Orchestration tools

ML/AI workloads

Graph data models

Data governance/security

Communication

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Dagster

ZenML

Kedro

Spark

Job description

Sciemo is building AI for consumer brands and seeks a senior Data Architect to own the data platform that powers our AI products. You will define data entry, modeling, governance, and serving layers across cloud environments, and work hands‑on with engineers and customer‑facing teams to ship resilient data solutions.

You will shape data contracts, drive scalable pipelines, and lead with architectural decisions that enable rapid delivery while protecting customer data.