United States onlyThe Principal Data Architect is the senior technical authority for how data is modeled, integrated, governed, and consumed across MeridianLink. The role is responsible for designing the enterprise data architecture, building the meta-model, driving the lakehouse strategy, and partnering with data governance, security, and compliance leaders to operationalize cataloging, lineage, classification, masking, and access controls across the platform.
Requirements
- 12–15+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data warehousing, and data architecture roles
- Demonstrated experience as a Data Architect at a SaaS company in the FinTech or financial services software space
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Databricks and PySpark on Azure, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, structured streaming, and performance tuning at scale
- Production experience with Informatica Data Management Cloud (IDMC) — or comparable enterprise integration platforms — for ingestion, transformation, and metadata-driven pipelines
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
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