Staff Data Platform Architect — Drive the Data Stack

MyFitnessPal; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan and match

Performance bonus

Wellness allowance

Paid time off

Job summary

MyFitnessPal is seeking a Staff Data Systems Architect to join the Data Engineering team. You will own the end-to-end design of the product data stack and drive the architecture roadmap to support scalable data-driven insights.

You will coordinate with Data Engineering, BI, Product Analytics and backend teams to enforce data movement standards, review tool decisions, and contribute to governance and compliance across the stack.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years in systems design, architecture, or engineering roles.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end systems design of the 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, BI, 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

Data systems design

Architecture leadership

Cloud data platforms

SQL

Python

Scala

Kubernetes

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Kubernetes

Kafka

Docker

GitHub

PlanetScale

Elasticsearch

Okta

Claude Code

Job description

MyFitnessPal is seeking a Staff Data Systems Architect to join the Data Engineering team. You will own the end-to-end design of the product data stack and drive the architecture roadmap to support scalable data-driven insights.

You will coordinate with Data Engineering, BI, Product Analytics and backend teams to enforce data movement standards, review tool decisions, and contribute to governance and compliance across the stack.