Staff Data Architect: Product Data Platform Lead

MyFitnessPal, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan and match

Wellness Allowance

Mentorship program

Paid time off (Responsible Time Off)

Job summary

MyFitnessPal, Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Systems Architect to lead the end-to-end design of the product data stack and drive the architecture roadmap.

You will coordinate contributions across Data Platform, Data Engineering, BI, and analytics teams to define data movement and governance standards. Ideal candidates bring 8–12+ years in systems architecture, experience with Snowflake/dbt, and a track record of vendor evaluations and automation-driven standards.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in systems design, architecture, or engineering roles, including 3–5 years designing end-to-end data platform architecture at the architect / staff level.
• Experience architecting the integrations of a modern customer data stack — product analytics, experimentation, attribution, and marketing activation tools (Amplitude, Eppo, Harness, AppsFlyer, Braze)
• Experience in Snowflake or similar cloud data platform, including performance tuning, cost optimization, and role-based access design
• Experience leading vendor evaluations, tool consolidations, or platform migrations
• Experience implementing data governance, security, and compliance frameworks, including PII handling and deletion/DSR workflows across multiple destinations
• Demonstrated experience defining architecture standards adopted across a team or organization, and enforcing them through automation
• Cost-conscious ownership of infrastructure and vendor spend, balancing performance and reliability against cost
• Proven ability to drive architecture decisions across teams and organizations

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end systems design of the MyFitnessPal product data stack
• Develop, drive, and maintain the systems architecture roadmap for the product data stack
• Serve as the primary point of contact in Data Platform for the consolidated data stack, coordinating contributions from Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Product Analytics, and backend engineering teams
• Define and enforce data movement and standardization discipline across the stack
• Lead architecture review of new tool decisions, vetting vendors against the existing stack, surfacing duplication, and collaborating on proof-of-value evaluations
• Contribute to the compliance architecture for user data, including PII tagging and a deletion/DSR policy by which every tool receiving user data is governed
• Administer access and licensing across the data stack, maintaining a single view of spend and access
• Document and evangelize architecture decisions, standards, and ownership models across the organization

Skills

Systems design

Data architecture

Vendor evaluations

Data governance

Automation

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Cost management

Architecture governance

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Kubernetes

Kafka

Elasticsearch

PlanetScale

GitHub

Amplitude

AppsFlyer

Braze

Job description

MyFitnessPal, Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Systems Architect to lead the end-to-end design of the product data stack and drive the architecture roadmap.

You will coordinate contributions across Data Platform, Data Engineering, BI, and analytics teams to define data movement and governance standards. Ideal candidates bring 8–12+ years in systems architecture, experience with Snowflake/dbt, and a track record of vendor evaluations and automation-driven standards.