Senior Data Architect for AI-Driven Data Platform

Adaptive Biotechnologies; United States; On-site; USD 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Adaptive Biotechnologies in the United States is hiring a Senior Data Architect to define, mature, and scale our enterprise data architecture. You will design trusted, governed data assets that support operations, analytics, data products, and AI use cases.

You will partner with data engineering, analytics, security, governance, and business stakeholders to establish standards, improve data usability, and ensure sources are well modeled, secure, and discoverable.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, or related data disciplines.
• Strong ability to design data architectures across operational systems, analytics platforms, and cloud data ecosystems.
• Deep understanding of data modeling techniques (conceptual, logical, physical).
• Proven track record creating governed, reusable data assets for operations, analytics, and data products.
• Knowledge of data quality, metadata management, lineage, and data access controls.
• Experience with batch, near real-time, API-driven, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, AWS, GCP, Informatica, dbt or similar.
• Ability to collaborate across data engineering, analytics, security, governance and AI/ML teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain data architecture standards across domains.
• Assess and rationalize critical data sources by value, quality, ownership.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for operational systems and analytics.
• Establish reusable data structures, canonical data models, reference data patterns, and integration approaches.
• Define architecture patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, consumption, sharing, retention, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with data engineering teams to translate architecture into scalable pipelines and data assets.
• Drive standards for metadata, lineage, business definitions, data ownership, data quality rules, documentation, and observability.
• Support governance by helping classify, secure, catalog, retain, and access data.
• Improve interoperability across source systems, APIs, data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, and cloud platforms.
• Guide teams in designing reusable and trusted data assets for reporting, analytics, automation, ML, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Provide architecture guidance during solution design, data quality investigations, platform modernization, and data integration initiatives.
• Communicate architecture decisions, tradeoffs, standards, and design recommendations clearly to technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• All other duties as assigned

Skills

Data modeling

Data governance

Metadata management

Data quality

Data lineage

Domain modeling

Canonical data models

Architecture patterns

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

AWS

GCP

Informatica

dbt

Job description

Adaptive Biotechnologies in the United States is hiring a Senior Data Architect to define, mature, and scale our enterprise data architecture. You will design trusted, governed data assets that support operations, analytics, data products, and AI use cases.

You will partner with data engineering, analytics, security, governance, and business stakeholders to establish standards, improve data usability, and ensure sources are well modeled, secure, and discoverable.