NetDocuments
Staff Data Architect
Lehi, Utah, United States; Remote - US · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
C#Distributed SystemsNoSQLDynamoDBSnowflakeAWSTerraformKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringCybersecurityComplianceRecruitingHIPAALeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- NetDocuments is the world's #1 trusted cloud content management and productivity platform for legal professionals, and the data beneath it is becoming our most strategic asset.
- This is a defining, high-visibility role.
- You will operate at the intersection of cloud transformation, large-scale distributed systems, data governance, and emerging AI, partnering directly with Engineering, Product, Security, and senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead the AWS re-architecture of data platforms.
- Drive the strategy for re-platforming and re-architecting large-scale, on-premises and legacy data systems into cloud-native AWS architectures, defining migration patterns, data-residency strategies, and low-risk cutover plans that minimize downtime.
- Own our NoSQL data platforms.
- Lead the architecture of our large-scale NoSQL systems-with deep, hands-on ownership of Couchbase and DynamoDB-including data modeling, partitioning and indexing strategies, consistency and access patterns, and tuning for performance, reliability, and cost at scale.
- Extend that ownership to event streaming (Kafka) and our Snowflake-based analytics platform, ensuring a coherent design across the full data estate.
- Build event-driven data systems.
- Architect reliable, observable, real-time data infrastructure using technologies such as Kafka, SQS, and SNS, and define standards for event schema design, topic management, consumer patterns, and end-to-end data lineage.
- Partner with principal engineers and delivery teams to shape enterprise-wide eventing strategy and drive its adoption across product domains.
- Drive data governance and security.
- Establish and enforce standards for classification, access control, encryption, retention, and auditability, ensuring alignment with frameworks such as SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA, and partner with Security on threat modeling and risk mitigation.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, SQS, SNS, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake or comparable warehouses and lakes.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CDK.
Nice to have
- strong experience in other modern languages is welcome.
Compensation
- Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Compensation & Benefits
Benefits
- Define a clear, multi-year vision for NetDocuments' data architecture and turn it into a pragmatic, sequenced roadmap that leadership, engineering, and product teams rally behind.
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