[Remote] Data Warehouse Technical Architect

About Virtru

Virtru is a company focused on setting data free while ensuring security, privacy, and control. They are seeking a Data Warehouse Technical Architect to provide architectural excellence and technical leadership for their digital privacy products, with responsibilities including system design, technical health, and mentoring engineers.

This is a remote job and is open to candidates in the USA.

Responsibilities

• Lead system design and architecture reviews for scaled data warehouses and engineer and designing and deploying web scale applications.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, including authoring and reviewing ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), to ensure alignment with overall software architecture.
• Data lakehouse design, data modeling, and integration patterns for deploying databases and data as a service, at scale.
• Provide technical direction for scaling complex features and initiatives involving data storage, processing, and deployments.
• Monitor and improve technical debt across all engineering teams, related to data storage, processing, and site reliability.
• Partner with Engineering Managers to define key technical health metrics and streamline technical onboarding processes.
• Drive reliability, performance, and security best practices for data storage, processing, and SRE.
• Break down complex technical tasks into clear, manageable deliverables for the team.
• Ensure sustainable engineering practices and code quality standards.
• Serve as a technical guide for team members, helping them understand data access, storage, deployment architecture, and development practices.
• Ensure teams are delivering solutions to satisfy requirements while aligning to current and future architectural designs.
• Coach and mentor engineers on data storage, warehouse, processing, and SRE systems architecture, and best practices.
• Lead by example through high-quality code contributions to critical or complex components.
• Share knowledge of hyperscale data warehouse/lakehouses, data models, and emerging technologies with the team.
• Assist SRE teams with improving stability, automation, and scalability.
• Conduct code reviews with a focus on architectural alignment and quality.
• Support hiring processes and technical assessments for engineering candidates.
• Partner with Engineering Managers through regular 1:1s and team planning sessions.
• Collaborate with product management, UX, and other architects to design and deliver new software solutions.
• Work with other Technical Architects to identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and technical challenges.
• Ensure technical roadmap alignment with product and business priorities.
• Participate in and contribute to platform-wide architectural initiatives.
• Take ownership of the entire lifecycle and toolchain of all data components from design through deployment.
• Contribute to critical technical implementations, balancing hands-on coding with architectural responsibilities.
• Work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment touching a variety of projects and products.
• Build software that will meaningfully impact how people approach data privacy.

Skills

• Deep site reliability engineering (SRE) experience.
• Natural passion for digital privacy, data architecture, and delivering exceptional technical solutions.
• Strong foundation in SRE principles and practices.
• Familiarity with machine learning infrastructure and MLOps.
• Strong knowledge of cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Synapse).
• Strong experience with lakehouse platforms (Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Hudi).
• Deep understanding of data modeling techniques (Kimball, Data Vault, or dimensional modeling).
• Experience with columnar storage formats (Parquet, ORC).
• Strong knowledge of batch and stream processing architectures.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or similar).
• Understanding of CDC (Change Data Capture) patterns and tools.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi).
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading architectural design and technical direction for engineering teams.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive technical decisions across teams.
• Strong technical mentoring and coaching experience.
• Experience creating architectural documentation, design documents, and technical specifications.
• Track record of improving technical health metrics and reducing technical debt.
• Experience with cross-team collaboration and dependency management.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• At least 7 years of data warehouse, database, or data processing experience.
• Proven experience in architectural or technical leadership roles.
• Excellent ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience with stakeholder management and aligning technical decisions with business context.
• Motivated by delivering customer value, team impact, and technical excellence.
• Experience architecting Microsoft 365 add-ins with focus on security, performance, and user experience.
• Knowledge of data privacy, encryption, and zero-trust security models.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO policy (in addition to 14 holidays).
• $1,500 annual Learning & Development Stipend.
• Frequent company-sponsored team celebrations.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
• Access to Headspace, a mental health app.
• Flat 3% contribution to your retirement account.
• High degree of flexibility for personal appointments and emergencies.
• Competitive compensation.
• Generous parental, medical, and bereavement policies.
• Uncapped commissions for Sales roles.
• 401K contribution and stock options.
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• New Hire Swag and IT Welcome boxes.
• Structured semi-annual 360° performance reviews.

Company Overview

• Virtru provides data encryption for email and file sharing, enabling users to easily control access to their sensitive data.
• Founded in 2012, headquartered in Washington, DC, USA.
• Workforce of 201-500 employees.
• Website: https://www.virtru.com.