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Airwallex

Principal Architect, Data Knowledge Platform (San Franciso)

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about 1 month ago

Base Salary

$220k - $350k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical execution of regional and global data localisation strategies within the Databricks environment.
  • Design scalable patterns that satisfy strict regulatory requirements while maintaining a unified global data model.
  • Reconcile local compliance constraints with global consistency in definitions, metrics, and knowledge artifacts.
  • Partner with Data Science, AI Engineering, Product, and Risk teams to ensure the platform supports experimentation and high-quality decision-making.
  • Lead global data modeling efforts, creating unified schemas that accommodate regional variance.
  • Define and implement 'Agent Interfaces'—APIs and tools that enable AI agents to interact with Knowledge and Skills layers.
  • Implement Governance-as-Code, ensuring automated data lineage and quality controls are embedded directly into the data platform.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale data systems with strong architectural fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with the Databricks ecosystem, including Unity Catalog and Delta Lake.
  • Experience implementing semantic layers or metric stores to enable consistent reporting and analytics.
  • Solid understanding of how AI/agent-based systems consume data, with experience building APIs or data services to support them.
  • Experience designing data solutions that meet regional data residency and compliance requirements.
  • Demonstrated senior-level individual contributor experience, including leading design reviews and mentoring engineers.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex.
  • Collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen.
  • Regular team-building events.
  • Freedom to be creative in a rapidly growing global fintech environment.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaApache SparkDatabricks

Categories

AI & MLData EngineeringData Science