Data Architect (AWS)

Location: Hybrid, with 3 days per week in the Oakville office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Compensation: CAD 165,000–210,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides purpose-built, cloud-based software for procurement, budgeting, payments, and grants management for public sector and government organizations across North America.

What you will do

• Define a managed AWS reference architecture for a reliable data foundation that can be operated by a small team.
• Specify layered data models from raw and cleansed data through curated and safe analytical layers without sensitive data.
• Establish governance for data classification, constituent PII, access control, lineage, and residency across all layers.
• Create reusable patterns for capture, storage, transformation, serving, and governance, including loose coupling through change-data-capture or scheduled extracts.
• Define guardrails for governed, pattern-based delivery and the limited use of low-code workflows.
• Build data products directly when additional delivery support is needed.

Requirements

• Senior-level data architecture experience with production AWS systems, including S3-based lake or lakehouse designs and a governed analytical layer.
• Deep knowledge of medallion or layered data architectures and related governance controls.
• Experience designing contextual or semantic data layers that reduce GenAI token consumption and improve the speed and cost of downstream AI features.
• Hands-on knowledge of managed AWS data services such as Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, and DMS or equivalent, with preference for managed services over self-run infrastructure.
• Experience designing data classification, PII handling, access control, lineage, and residency controls, ideally in a regulated or public sector context.
• Ability to define an appropriately scoped blueprint, defer work not yet required, and hand off clear, documented patterns that a small team can execute.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with dbt and warehouse-side modeling such as Redshift, and with low-code orchestration such as n8n.
• Experience with Canadian data residency requirements and multi-region AWS deployments.
• Experience establishing governance from day one rather than retrofitting it later.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with standard hours on office days; remaining days depend on the role and manager.
• Annual additional days off attached to long weekends and up to eight hours of paid philanthropy time per year for employees.
• Development support through budget, mentorship, and opportunities to deepen AI or government technology expertise.
• Collaborative culture focused on public sector impact, community involvement, and sustainable work practices.
• This is a 12-month contractor engagement.