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Job Summary:
TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington, working to advance global energy deployment through innovative nuclear solutions. They are seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design and governance of their enterprise data ecosystem, focusing on scalable data infrastructure and cross-functional collaboration to enhance data interoperability and AI readiness.
Responsibilities:
• Establish and champion enterprise-wide data governance policies, standards, and best practices for data creation, storage, access, quality, and lifecycle management
• Define and maintain a data catalog, data dictionary, and metadata management framework
• Develop and enforce data classification standards in collaboration with Legal and Cybersecurity to ensure appropriate handling of sensitive and regulated data
• Create and own data modeling standards (conceptual, logical, and physical) across all platforms
• Create and own data quality and process monitoring frameworks to ensure the health, reliability, and lineage of data across the enterprise.
• Design and evolve the enterprise data lake into a data lakehouse architecture, ensuring it supports current workloads and scales to accommodate future application acquisitions and integrations
• Lead the architectural design of data ingestion, transformation, and storage patterns within Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics
• Define reference architectures and design patterns for data integration, ensuring new applications and data sources are onboarded consistently and securely
• Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the data platform
• Evaluate a Data Hub architecture to streamline the exchange of data between operational applications and the analytical lakehouse, reducing point-to-point integration complexity
• Partner with the Infrastructure Architect to align data platform design with infrastructure, networking, and cloud resource management strategies
• Work with Cybersecurity to implement data access controls, encryption standards, auditing, and compliance requirements
• Guide and mentor a team of Data Engineers, providing technical leadership, reviewing designs, and ensuring adherence to architectural standards
• Collaborate with project teams and business stakeholders across multiple concurrent projects to define data requirements and integration approaches for new and acquired applications
• Serve as the data architecture lead across multiple simultaneous projects, providing guidance from initiation through deployment.
• Define repeatable integration patterns for acquired applications being onboarded into the company data lake, including data mapping, transformation logic, and quality validation.
• Document architecture decisions, data flows, and integration specifications to maintain a clear and accessible architectural record.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 9+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing enterprise data lakes or large-scale data platforms.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics (dedicated sql pool and serverless).
• Strong experience with data modeling (relational, dimensional, and NoSQL data models).
• Proven ability to establish and drive data governance programs including metadata management, master data management, data quality, and lineage.
• Experience collaborating with security and infrastructure teams to implement compliant, secure data architectures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred:
• Experience with Azure Purview or a similar enterprise data catalog / governance platform
• Familiarity with Delta Lake, Apache Spark, or similar open-source data processing frameworks within a cloud environment.
• Familiarity with Azure Data Lake Storage, various database platforms (Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres, Cosmos), Fabric, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, and Logic Apps
• Exposure to application acquisition and data integration onboarding processes
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) and their architectural implications.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert or related Azure certification.
• Experience in a multi-project or program environment with competing priorities.
Company:
TerraPower is a nuclear energy technology firm that focuses on developing a sustainable and economic nuclear energy system. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Bellevue, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.