Remote Chief Data Architect

Description:

• TetraScience is seeking a Chief Data Architect to lead the technical strategy for the data architecture of the TetraScience Scientific Data Cloud.
• The role involves defining, communicating, and driving the technical vision and data architectural strategy.
• The Chief Data Architect will devise strategies to support diverse data domains and evolve products for high scale, analytics, and AI/ML use cases.
• Responsibilities include designing schema, taxonomy, and ontologies for scientific use cases, and advising executive leadership on technical feasibility and data integrity.
• The position requires providing inputs into technology evaluation and planning, driving innovations to improve data architecture, and communicating architecture to teams and stakeholders.
• The role also includes mentoring team members on design techniques and staying updated on emerging technologies.
• The Chief Data Architect will represent TetraScience at industry conferences and provide thought leadership.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 15+ years of experience in designing and building highly scalable, mission-critical distributed software systems focused on analytical data processing.
• A deep understanding of Data Architecture, Data Modeling, and Design is required.
• Hands-on experience in designing schema, taxonomy, and ontology specifically for the life sciences domain is essential.
• Understanding of various modeling strategies such as dimensional, snowflake, relational, and unstructured is necessary.
• Significant experience with ETL/data orchestration, data integration, data lakes, data warehouses, and data science/machine learning tooling is required.
• A proven track record of driving architectural vision in a company or scalable product line is essential.
• Proficiency in Python is required.
• Candidates should demonstrate curiosity and a drive to learn, translating these qualities into tangible results.
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, both verbal and written, are necessary.
• The ability and desire for transparent communication and influence at the executive level are important.
• An entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to bring ideas to the table are required.

Benefits:

• The position offers 100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and their immediate family members.
• A 401K plan is available.
• Employees enjoy unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Flexible working arrangements are provided.
• Company-paid Life Insurance and Long-Term/Short-Term Disability (LTD/STD) benefits are included.