Senior Data Architect – AI-Ready Modeling & Governance

Yahoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work options

Healthcare

401k

Job summary

Yahoo Mail is seeking exceptional Data Engineers to join the team that designs and governs Yahoo’s massive data foundation. You will craft enterprise data models, optimize schemas for multi-tenant use, and enable AI-ready pipelines for real-time features and insights.

You’ll work with Data Science, Product, Marketing, and Engineering to ensure governance, lineage, and scalable architecture while embracing innovative tooling and modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting enterprise-scale data models.
• Experience designing data schemas for multi-tenant platforms.
• Hands-on with AI-assisted data tooling and real-time data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect, optimize, and maintain Yahoo Mail foundational data models and schemas.
• Design and implement AI-ready data layers and feature stores.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Product, and Marketing to align schemas with business needs.
• Champion governance practices and data lineage across large-scale systems.

Skills

Enterprise data modeling

Schema design

AI/ML data pipelines

Cloud-native architectures

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/DS

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Job description

Yahoo Mail is seeking exceptional Data Engineers to join the team that designs and governs Yahoo’s massive data foundation. You will craft enterprise data models, optimize schemas for multi-tenant use, and enable AI-ready pipelines for real-time features and insights.

You’ll work with Data Science, Product, Marketing, and Engineering to ensure governance, lineage, and scalable architecture while embracing innovative tooling and modern DevOps practices.