Hybrid Data Platform Architect – Birmingham

Mission Pet Health; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Birmingham

onsite in Birmingham

Job summary

Mission Pet Health is hiring a Solutions Architect to own the end-to-end design of the data platform tying together hundreds of systems across clinical, financial, HR, and marketing domains. This hybrid Birmingham, AL role requires hands-on leadership to drive architecture and governance while mentoring engineers.

The candidate will focus on SQL Server, SSAS, ClickHouse, Azure Data Factory, and service-oriented workloads on Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years across data engineering, software engineering, or platform architecture.
• Deep hands-on experience with SQL Server, SSAS, and Azure Data Factory.
• Experience with ClickHouse or comparable engines; production-grade Python/Go.
• Designing event-driven, service-oriented workloads on Kubernetes.
• Genuine fluency with AI-assisted engineering and governance in multi-site setups.
• Proven track record partnering with executives to translate business needs into durable designs.
• Residence or willingness to relocate to Birmingham, Alabama, onsite.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end target-state architecture for the data platform, including ingestion, storage, modeling, serving, and governance.
• Guide analytical layer on SQL Server, SSAS, ClickHouse, and integration fabric across Azure Data Factory, REST APIs, NATS, and CDC.
• Design and operate event-driven workloads on Kubernetes using Go and Python.
• Promote AI-driven development with agentic tooling to improve speed, tests, and documentation.
• Define data contracts, schema standards, and quality SLAs for engineering and analytics teams.
• Embed PII/PHI handling, access control, and auditability; mentor engineers and translate executive intent into roadmaps.

Skills

Executive collaboration

Architecture design

Mentoring

Cross-functional leadership

Regulated environment

Tools

T-SQL

SQL Server

SSAS

Azure Data Factory

ClickHouse

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Python

Go

Kubernetes

REST APIs

NATS

Kafka

Job description

Mission Pet Health is hiring a Solutions Architect to own the end-to-end design of the data platform tying together hundreds of systems across clinical, financial, HR, and marketing domains. This hybrid Birmingham, AL role requires hands-on leadership to drive architecture and governance while mentoring engineers.

The candidate will focus on SQL Server, SSAS, ClickHouse, Azure Data Factory, and service-oriented workloads on Kubernetes.