Senior Cloud Data Architect — Remote (Canada)

Kepler Group; United States; Remote; USD 84,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Napkyn, a Kepler Group company, is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Architect to bridge engineering, analytics and business. You will design practical cloud data solutions in Google Cloud and private clouds, turning data into insights that guide marketing decisions and customer growth.

The role combines hands-on data engineering, analytics modeling, and client problem solving to ensure data is usable, insights are trusted, and teams can act with confidence.

Qualifications

• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines in private cloud environments (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).
• Experience designing data solutions for marketing/advertising/customer analytics with API integrations.
• Strong CS fundamentals, problem-solving and software engineering skills.
• Ability to understand and organize data from multiple sources.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with Google Cloud, especially BigQuery.
• Experience with API integration and OAuth.
• Security/privacy awareness in data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery sessions with clients to define cloud data architectures that meet objectives.
• Integrate data from marketing platforms (paid media, analytics, CRM) to deliver insights.
• Collaborate with clients to understand objectives, requirements, and success criteria.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor guiding solution design and implementation.
• Navigate evolving requirements and align solutions to business needs.
• Serve as conduit between client business, marketing and technical teams to ensure alignment.
• Develop data integration for customer private cloud environments using tools and APIs.
• Build or consult on infrastructure for ETL/ELT across diverse data sources.
• Assess and improve pipelines for efficiency, security, and data quality.
• Mentor team members and promote best practices.
• Develop reusable data models, pipelines, and dashboard templates.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Python

SQL

Data integration

Problem solving

Communication

Education

CS/Statistics/IS degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

BigQuery

Kotlin/JVM

JavaScript

Job description

Napkyn, a Kepler Group company, is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Architect to bridge engineering, analytics and business. You will design practical cloud data solutions in Google Cloud and private clouds, turning data into insights that guide marketing decisions and customer growth.

The role combines hands-on data engineering, analytics modeling, and client problem solving to ensure data is usable, insights are trusted, and teams can act with confidence.