Senior Data Architect - Real-Time, AI & Cloud Leader

ABC Financial; Texas; Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

Open PTO / flexible time off

Parental & Pawternity Leave

Wellness benefits and premium Calm App

Job summary

ABC Fitness in the United States is hiring a Senior Data Architect to define and lead our data architecture strategy and roadmap. You will drive the shift from batch processing to real-time capabilities, partnering with executives, product, and engineering to align data decisions with business outcomes.

You will mentor a global team of senior data architects and shape governance, security, and quality standards while pushing AI-enabled improvements across data platforms and analytics.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or a related discipline, including experience leading senior technical professionals.
• Experience moving data platforms from batch processing toward real-time or near-real-time architectures.
• Deep experience with modern cloud data platforms and lakehouse architecture.
• Experience with AWS, Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog is highly valued.
• Strong foundations in data modeling, data warehousing, data governance, and distributed data systems.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Python sufficient to review designs and engage credibly with engineers.
• Practical experience using AI in your own work, along with sound judgment about where AI creates meaningful value.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to make technical strategy clear to executive leaders and design decisions clear to engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to influence product and engineering partners without relying solely on formal authority.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in fitness, wellness, SaaS, payments, or subscription-based business is a plus.
• Experience building customer-facing analytics or reporting products.
• Experience with Databricks SQL, Power BI, or comparable analytics platforms.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate ABC’s data architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards.
• Lead the architectural evolution from batch and latency-driven processing toward real-time data.
• Partner with executive, product, and engineering leaders to connect data architecture decisions to business and customer outcomes.
• Identify practical opportunities to use AI to improve engineering productivity, data generation, quality, and decision-making.
• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of four to five senior data architects.
• Establish consistent design review practices across the Data and Reporting organization.
• Guide architecture decisions related to data quality, governance, security, compliance, scalability, and reliability.
• Partner with Product leaders early in the planning process to shape data and reporting capabilities.
• Explain complex technical strategies clearly to both executive and technical audiences.
• Build alignment across teams and influence decisions beyond your direct reporting relationships.

Skills

Data architecture

Real-time data

AWS

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Data governance

Communication

Leadership

Global teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Power BI

Databricks SQL

Job description

ABC Fitness in the United States is hiring a Senior Data Architect to define and lead our data architecture strategy and roadmap. You will drive the shift from batch processing to real-time capabilities, partnering with executives, product, and engineering to align data decisions with business outcomes.

You will mentor a global team of senior data architects and shape governance, security, and quality standards while pushing AI-enabled improvements across data platforms and analytics.