Staff Data Architect

Role Description

Jellyfish is looking for a Staff/Lead Data Architect to help design, automate, and scale the next generation of our Jellyfish data platform. You’ll be responsible for:

• Architectural Evolution & Blueprinting: Owning the blueprint for the next-generation Jellyfish data platform, tackling existing data footprints, and refactoring pipelines into efficient, scalable patterns.
• Automated Data Governance: Designing and automating strict, code-driven environment isolation boundaries to ensure safe data catalogs.
• Orchestration & Compute Scaling: Leading the modernization of workflow orchestration and distributed compute engines, focusing on reducing runtime overhead and eliminating API bottlenecks.
• Modern Integration Middleware: Partnering with application teams to ensure secure API and Backend-for-Frontend layers are used instead of querying raw data services directly.
• Proactive Data Observability & FinOps: Building and maintaining granular data-quality monitors and cost-allocation frameworks.

Qualifications

• Data Tooling Fluency: Deep, production-level experience with Python, advanced SQL, and modern data stack essentials.
• Catalog & Warehouse Practitioner: Hands-on mastery of enterprise-scale data platforms and governance layers.
• Automation Mindset: Ability to automate manual data processes via Infrastructure-as-Code or programmatic workflows.
• Collaborative Systems Thinker: Excellent at documenting data lineage and collaborating across teams.
• Pragmatic Problem Solver: Understanding the difference between data quality stages and software development lifecycles.

Requirements

• Experience in a rapidly scaling B2B SaaS startup handling massive multi-tenant data sets.
• Strong opinions on the future of Git-like data versioning and zero-copy cloning.
• Experience managing complex cloud-billing attributions or scaling heavy LLM/vector-embedding data workloads.
• Humility, a performance-driven attitude, and a team-player approach.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.
• Authorization to work for any employer in the US.
• Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Benefits

• A fun and collaborative work environment.
• Opportunities to build great companies with a sense of humor.

Company Description

Jellyfish enables leaders to effectively build AI-integrated engineering teams, align engineering decisions with business initiatives, and deliver the right software efficiently and on time. AI tools alone won’t transform your organization—Jellyfish shows you what’s working, what’s not, and how to build high-performing teams that know how to use AI the right way.