Data Platform Architect, Aladdin Data

Salary: $215,000 - 275,000 per year Requirements:

• Extensive background in data platform architecture, data engineering, distributed systems, or a closely related field, with experience designing scalable, reliable, high-performance, and cost-efficient enterprise data platforms in complex, multi-team environments.
• Experience building governed platforms for AI and unstructured data workloads, including object storage, document management, metadata, retrieval, vector or graph technologies, security, and operational reliability.
• Experience designing high-performance data services and APIs with strong scale, availability, throughput, and latency requirements, supported by solid knowledge of distributed systems and integration patterns.
• Technical fluency in data modeling and transformation, SQL, Python or Java, reusable packages, automated testing, and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
• Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures using distributed event streaming and messaging platforms, plus stateful stream and batch processing engines, including schema management, delivery semantics, event time, checkpointing, and fault tolerance.
• Proven architecture leadership and strong technical judgment across workflow orchestration, Data Operations, release management, observability, cloud infrastructure, and source-control and delivery platforms, with the ability to simplify systems and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Ability to influence through technical credibility, align engineering, product, architecture, and executive stakeholders, communicate complex ideas clearly, and operate effectively in financial services or another highly regulated industry.

• Define and evolve the target-state architecture for Aladdin data platforms, shared services, APIs, SDKs, metadata, configuration, and data models, while guiding investments and technology choices that improve scalability, reliability, performance, security, interoperability, and developer experience.
• Shape platform capabilities for AI and agent-based applications across structured and unstructured data, including metadata, retrieval, governance, application development, and workload orchestration.
• Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams from discovery and prototyping through implementation, rollout, and adoption, validating architectural decisions against production outcomes and adjusting designs where needed.
• Drive measurable gains in availability, throughput, latency, scalability, onboarding speed, and engineering productivity by using recurring production and operational issues to identify and resolve systemic platform problems.
• Define reference architectures, engineering patterns, and technical guardrails for code quality, testing, security, observability, resilience, and release management, and lead reviews that produce clear decisions while keeping governance practical and enabling.
• Establish reusable, paved-road capabilities through libraries, templates, infrastructure, APIs, automation, tooling, documentation, and self-service patterns that reduce fragmentation and improve development speed and consistency.
• Serve as a senior technical leader and force multiplier by mentoring engineers and architects, advancing modern engineering practices, and leading cross-platform initiatives that improve design quality, delivery automation, observability, resilience, and performance.
• Apply sound judgment and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and explore new approaches and technologies with rigor.

• AI
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• Python
• SQL
• Security

More:

We are collaborating with hackajob to connect with exceptional professionals for this senior architect role on our Aladdin Data Platform Engineering team. Our team builds and operates the foundational data and developer platforms that power the Aladdin ecosystem, including the Enterprise Data Platform, Data Services and supporting infrastructure, and Aladdin Studio. These platforms enable our community to acquire, manage, govern, process, and distribute third-party and proprietary data at enterprise scale, and to build solutions on top of Aladdin. We operate across a complex global technology landscape where reliability, performance, interoperability, security, and developer experience are critical. This role is based in New York at 50 Hudson Yards, and we offer a competitive compensation package, annual discretionary bonus, healthcare, leave benefits, retirement benefits, a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off. We follow a hybrid work model with at least 4 days in the office per week and 1 day working from home, supporting collaboration, apprenticeship, learning, and onboarding. We are committed to creating an environment where colleagues feel welcomed, valued, and supported, and we encourage thoughtful use of AI during our hiring process.

last updated 37 week of 2026