Senior Data Architect

Corporate Functions Technology

We are seeking a Senior Data Lakehouse Architect to design and lead the build-out of a Legal Data Lakehouse platform on AWS and Databricks . This role will drive the architecture, engineering, and governance of scalable, secure, and compliant data capabilities supporting legal operations, contract intelligence, eDiscovery, and AI/ML use cases. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Databricks, AWS data platforms, and enterprise data architecture , with experience delivering solutions in regulated environments aligned to security, compliance, and audit requirements.

Why This Role Is Important to Us

State Street's Legal function operates across a broad set of contracts, matters, regulatory obligations, documents, and workflows that are distributed across multiple systems and formats. Building a modern Legal Data Lakehouse is critical to creating a trusted, governed foundation that brings these data sources together - making legal information easier to access, analyze, and use at scale. This role is critical to establishing a secure and scalable data foundation that enables legal analytics and AI use cases while strengthening governance, auditability, and global consistency across Legal.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Architecture & Platform Design
• Define and implement the end-to-end Legal Data Lakehouse architecture using Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows) on AWS
• Design multi-layered data architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) to support:
  • Contract metadata and document ingestion
  • Legal matter management data
  • eDiscovery datasets
  • External regulatory and compliance feeds
• Establish scalable ingestion frameworks (batch and streaming) for structured and unstructured legal data (PDFs, contracts, emails)
• Data Engineering & Integration
• Lead development of ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Spark, and Python/SQL
• Integrate with enterprise platforms, including:
  • Contract lifecycle management systems
  • AI platforms and LLM pipelines
  • Document repositories and enterprise content systems
• Design patterns for extracting structured data from unstructured legal documents and persisting into Delta Lake
• Enable downstream integration with enterprise data platforms, analytics tools, and AI/ML pipelines
• Governance, Security & Compliance
• Implement data governance frameworks using Databricks Unity Catalog and AWS-native controls (IAM, KMS)
• Establish:
  • Fine-grained access controls (row/column-level security)
  • Data lineage and auditability
• Ensure compliance with:
  • Data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR)
  • Internal security and audit requirements
• Partner with IAM teams to integrate with enterprise identity providers (e.g., Entra ID / Azure AD)
• AI/ML & Advanced Analytics Enablement
• Architect data models supporting:
  • Contract analytics, clause extraction, and obligation tracking
  • Legal AI use cases (contract review, litigation insights, compliance monitoring, legal spend analytics)
• Design search and retrieval architectures (RAG) for enterprise legal knowledge bases
• Enable entity extraction and knowledge graph frameworks
• Integrate with LLM/GenAI platforms to support capabilities such as document summarization, Q&A, and workflow automation
• DevOps & Platform Operations
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Git-based workflows)
• Define standards for:
  • Code quality and versioning
  • Environment promotion (Dev / QA / Prod)
• Implement observability and alerting for platform health and reliability
• Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
• Partner with Legal and Technology leadership to define platform roadmap and priorities
• Provide architectural governance and design oversight
• Mentor data engineers and platform teams
• Translate business and legal requirements into scalable, enterprise-grade solutions
• Operate within a federated data and platform model, collaborating across engineering, security, and domain teams

What We Value

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, engineering, or analytics platforms
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark
• Strong experience with AWS-based data platforms
• Expertise in data governance, security, and compliance in regulated environments
• Experience working with unstructured data and NLP/document processing pipelines

Education & Preferred Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline
• Relevant certifications strongly preferred:
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer / Architect
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)

Preferred Qualifications (Core – Databricks, AWS, Data Lakehouse)

• Strong hands-on experience with the Databricks Lakehouse platform, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, and MLflow
• Deep expertise in AWS data platform services, including S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Redshift, and IAM
• Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale data lakehouse solutions on AWS using Databricks
• Advanced proficiency in Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala), SQL, and Python
• Strong understanding of data governance and security, including access controls, metadata management, and encryption (KMS, CMK/BYOK)
• Experience building end-to-end data pipelines (batch and streaming) and supporting AI/ML workloads within a lakehouse architecture

Nice To Have (Domain & Industry Experience)

• Experience in Legal, Compliance, Financial Services, or other regulated industries
• Understanding of legal data constructs, including contracts, clauses, obligations, and matters
• Experience supporting legal AI use cases (contract analytics, document summarization, compliance monitoring)
• Experience handling sensitive data in highly regulated, audit-driven environments

Salary Range

$120,000 - $202,500 Annual

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.

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