Senior Data Platform Architect: Backup & Observability Lead

Archer; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase, seeks a Lead Data Engineer to oversee architecture and engineering for scalable backup, recovery, and data protection services across data platforms. You will lead observability efforts, dashboards, and governance to ensure secure, reliable data pipelines and analytics platforms.

The role emphasizes building cloud-native solutions on AWS, driving automation, and delivering SLOs/SLAs with strong leadership across Product, Architecture, SRE, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience leading production systems.
• Strong observability, monitoring, and incident response skills.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in data backup, recovery, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain dashboards for data platforms and backup services.
• Define dashboard standards, ownership, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure instrumentation and telemetry quality for platform KPIs.
• Lead architecture for backup, recovery, and data protection across platforms.

Skills

Observability

Data governance

System design

Leadership

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Grafana

Dynatrace

Tableau

Job description

Archer, in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase, seeks a Lead Data Engineer to oversee architecture and engineering for scalable backup, recovery, and data protection services across data platforms. You will lead observability efforts, dashboards, and governance to ensure secure, reliable data pipelines and analytics platforms.

The role emphasizes building cloud-native solutions on AWS, driving automation, and delivering SLOs/SLAs with strong leadership across Product, Architecture, SRE, and