Remote Data Architect, BI Analytics Platform

Assured; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Healthcare plan

Life insurance

Unlimited PTO

Family leave

401(k) contribution

WFH perks

Health FSAs & HSAs

Team events & Offsites

Job summary

Assured is hiring a Data Architect to define the analytics platform standards, patterns, and lineage across data products. You’ll design the Medallion architecture, enforce security, PII controls, and end-to-end data quality, while enabling analysts and leaders to trust the numbers.

You will mentor engineers, enforce CI/CD, and drive cataloging, governance, and change management to scale a modern BI analytics stack that supports billions in claims decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, architecture, or warehousing, including 3+ years as the accountable architect, with expert SQL and working fluency in Python.
• Know Snowflake and the Medallion pattern inside out.
• Experience with dbt, Terraform, and an orchestrator like Airflow or Dagster is a plus.
• Model data with intent (Dimensional/Kimball; Data Vault).
• Has experience with PII and regulated data; capable of RBAC, masking, retention policies.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and be accountable for schema design across all layers.
• Translate reporting needs into durable data models and work with Security, Legal, and Compliance on audits.
• Define and enforce data quality contracts, CI/CD, and automation; raise the technical bar.
• Lead through influence and mentor data engineers through design reviews and hands-on collaboration.
• Document architecture decisions and maintain lineage, catalogs, and governance across platforms.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Medallion pattern

dbt

Terraform

Airflow

Dagster

Data modeling (Kimball/Dimensional)

Data Vault

PII handling

RBAC & data masking

Data governance

Observability

CI/CD

Version control

Tools

Snowflake Platform

dbt

Terraform

Airflow

Dagster

Atlan

Alation

Collibra

DataHub

Job description

Assured is hiring a Data Architect to define the analytics platform standards, patterns, and lineage across data products. You’ll design the Medallion architecture, enforce security, PII controls, and end-to-end data quality, while enabling analysts and leaders to trust the numbers.

You will mentor engineers, enforce CI/CD, and drive cataloging, governance, and change management to scale a modern BI analytics stack that supports billions in claims decisions.