Data Platform Architect

Role Description

The Data Platform Architect is the lead designer and technical authority for our modern data ecosystem. The Architect is responsible for ensuring the platform provides a high-performance, cost-effective, and secure foundation that evolves alongside business needs. This is a "design-and-direction" role where you set the standards, review engineering output, and serve as the primary bridge between complex technical systems and business value.

Work Mode: Remote

What the Architect will own:

• Platform Design & Research: Lead architectural decisions regarding compute engine selection, open-table format implementation, and tiered storage design.
• Agnostic Infrastructure: Architect a decoupled data environment that ensures interoperability across multiple engines and prevents proprietary vendor lock-in.
• Governance & Compliance: Design and oversee the implementation of automated data governance, including PII discovery, row/column-level security, and auditability.
• Standards & Frameworks: Define the "Definition of Done" for data pipelines, establishing coding standards, CI/CD patterns, and technical documentation requirements.
• Architectural Decision Records (ADR): Maintain a version-controlled repository of all consequential technical decisions, documenting the rationale, trade-offs, and long-term implications.
• Performance & FinOps: Monitor and optimize platform performance and spend, ensuring sub-second query speeds for massive user bases while maintaining a lean cloud footprint.
• Technical Stewardship: Conduct deep-dive code and design reviews for all data models and orchestration workflows; mentor and unblock senior engineering staff.

Qualifications

• 8+ Years in Data Engineering / Architecture: Proven experience delivering production-grade Lakehouse environments for high-concurrency (1,000+ user) organizations.
• Modern Data Stack Fluency: Extensive experience with Databricks (Lakehouse/Unity Catalog) and high-performance warehouses like Amazon Redshift or Snowflake.
• Open-Table Formats: Deep hands-on expertise with Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake, including optimization strategies for partitioning and schema evolution.
• Transformation & Modeling: Mastery of dbt (Core) for complex SQL-based modeling and PySpark or Python for sophisticated data processing.
• High-Efficiency Compute: Familiarity with vectorized/embedded engines like DuckDB for specialized or cost-sensitive processing tasks.
• Orchestration Mastery: Advanced experience with Apache Airflow, specifically in designing resilient, dependency-aware DAGs in resource-constrained environments.
• Cloud Ecosystems: Expert-level knowledge of AWS (S3, EC2, IAM) or equivalent services in Azure/GCP, with a focus on storage-compute separation.
• Experience with open-source catalog implementations like Apache Polaris.
• Knowledge of Data Ops principles and automated data quality testing frameworks.
• Experience translating technical debt and architectural roadmaps for C-level executives.
• Background in managing fixed-resource infrastructure (e.g., EC2/VM-based processing) vs. elastic serverless models.
• Kubernetes (K8s): Deep understanding of Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets management.

Benefits

At TaskUs, we prioritize our employees' well-being by offering competitive industry salaries and comprehensive benefits packages. Our commitment to a People First culture is reflected in the various departments we have established, including Total Rewards, Wellness, HR, and Diversity. We take pride in our inclusive environment and positive impact on the community. Moreover, we actively encourage internal mobility and professional growth at all stages of an employee's career within TaskUs.

Company Description

TaskUs is a provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to fast-growing technology companies, helping its clients represent, protect and grow their brands. Leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure, TaskUs serves clients in the fastest-growing sectors, including social media, e-commerce, gaming, streaming media, food delivery, ride-sharing, HiTech, FinTech, and HealthTech.

The People First culture at TaskUs has enabled the company to expand its workforce to approximately 60,000 employees globally. Presently, we have a presence in twenty-three locations across twelve countries, which include the Philippines, India, and the United States.