Data Architect (AWS)

Location: Hybrid, with 3 days per week in the Atlanta, GA office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The broader company also operates a hybrid office in Oakville, Canada.

Company

hirify.global provides 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, engineering patterns, and governance posture for the data program.
• Design layered data models from raw through cleansed and curated data to a safe analytical layer containing no sensitive data.
• Establish governance for data classification, constituent PII handling, access control, lineage, and residency.
• Create reusable patterns for data capture, land-and-store, transform-and-serve, and governance.
• Design loosely coupled integrations with operational systems using change-data-capture or scheduled extracts.
• Build data products directly when delivery requires additional hands-on support.

Requirements

• Senior 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 the governance controls applied across them.
• 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 a preference for managed services over self-run systems.
• 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 that the backlog does not yet require, and provide clean, documented patterns that a small team can execute.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with dbt and warehouse-side modeling such as Redshift.
• Familiarity 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 three days per week in the Atlanta or Oakville offices and working arrangements for remaining days determined by the role and manager.
• Two additional Eunafier Days each year, attached to a long weekend.
• Up to eight hours of paid philanthropy time annually.
• Development support through budget, mentorship, AI and government technology learning, and opportunities for career growth.
• Community engagement through donations, shared expertise, and employee connection initiatives.