Senior Data Architect: Unified Athlete Profiles & AI Coaching

Nike; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike MAC BI is seeking a senior data architect to own the logical and physical data architecture for the Activity domain. You will define how wearable device streams, coaching data, and sport science models become production-ready data structures on Databricks and Sole.

You will lead data model design across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers, STMs, and contracts for downstream consumers including the AI Coaching Engine and dashboards. Collaboration with engineering and analytics is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, data analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of data modeling experience across analytical and operational data systems, with large-scale platforms.
• Deep expertise in dimensional modeling, Data Vault, or medallion architectures with tradeoffs.
• Experience producing multi-source data harmonization and trusted unified representations.
• Advanced SQL and data profiling skills with ability to explore new sources quickly.
• Experience producing Source-to-Target Mappings and working with engineers to implement them.
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering and analytics; able to speak both languages.

Responsibilities

• Design the unified athlete profile data model harmonizing wearable device streams from multiple vendors.
• Model coaching intelligence data layer for AI Coaching Engine and dashboards.
• Translate sport science constructs into production-ready data structures for scale.
• Own the Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion layer design and transformation contracts.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

5+ years data modeling

Dimensional modeling

Data Vault

Multi-source data harmonization

Advanced SQL

Source-to-Target Mappings

Collaboration with eng/analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, data analytics, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks Spark

Job description

Nike MAC BI is seeking a senior data architect to own the logical and physical data architecture for the Activity domain. You will define how wearable device streams, coaching data, and sport science models become production-ready data structures on Databricks and Sole.

You will lead data model design across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers, STMs, and contracts for downstream consumers including the AI Coaching Engine and dashboards. Collaboration with engineering and analytics is essential.