Staff Data Architect
AI summary of the role
Function Health is hiring a Staff Data Architect to own the semantic layer of its data platform, ensuring clean models and a governed metrics layer that power dashboards, self-serve analytics, and AI-driven data agents.
What you’ll do
- Own the semantic layer: design and maintain metrics, dimensions, and data models as the single source of truth for humans and AI.
- Architect for AI-readiness: structure Databricks and GCP platform with clean schemas in Unity Catalog, consistent naming, and data contracts.
- Drive data quality end-to-end: build observability, testing, and alerting into pipelines.
- Enable self-serve analytics: partner with product, clinical, and business teams to deliver tooling and dashboards.
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years of analytics engineering, data engineering, or data architecture experience with staff-level scope.
- Deep SQL expertise and strong Python skills.
- Strong data modeling fundamentals; experience with dbt is a plus.
- Experience with modern data stack tools: Databricks, Snowflake or BigQuery, Airflow or similar, Looker/Tableau.
Technologies
Databricks · Unity Catalog · Delta Lake · Spark · GCP · dbt · Snowflake · BigQuery · Airflow · Looker · Tableau · Python
About Function Health
Membership-based service giving consumers 100+ lab biomarker tests plus AI-driven health insights and clinician guidance for a recurring annual fee.
Series B · 200–500 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
building an integrated health platform that spans the full path from testing to health clarity to daily action. Function recently announced a $298M Series B and is entering its next chapter of growth. As we scale, the quality and durability of our People systems, data, and insights will directly shape our ability to attract, retain, and support exceptional talent. We are growing our team and seeking out world-class talent that deeply believes in our mission to positively impact global health, has a relentless bias toward action, and a growth mindset. Function fosters a collaborative and dynamic environment where every day we build the future. Role Function Health is building the most comprehensive picture of human health ever assembled and making sense of that data is core to our mission. We're looking for a Staff Data Architect to own the semantic layer that sits at the heart of
More from the job description
Company Overview Function Health is the AI operating system for health, designed to empower people to live 100 healthy years. We are redefining how individuals understand, measure, and improve their health by moving beyond the limitations of traditional care and enabling comprehensive, continuous insight into human biology. Function has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024, and is venture-backed by Redpoint and other leading venture firms. Over half a million members have joined Function to take control of their health. Through comprehensive lab testing, MRI and CT imaging, longitudinal data, and guidance from AI and clinical teams, Function gives members a complete and continuous view of their health — and the clarity to act on it. Through acquisitions across imaging, mobile phlebotomy, and supplement tracking and optimization, Function is building an integrated health platform that spans the full path from testing to health clarity to daily action. Function recently announced a $298M Series B and is entering its next chapter of growth. As we scale, the quality and durability of our People systems, data, and insights will directly shape our ability to attract, retain, and support exceptional talent. We are growing our team and seeking out world-class talent that deeply believes in our mission to positively impact global health, has a r [... source excerpt omitted ...] We have a platform. Now we need someone to make it exceptional, clean models, a well-governed metrics layer, and the architecture to let AI query our data reliably and accurately. You'll collaborate closely with data scientists, product engineers, and business leaders to ensure that when anyone (or anything) asks a question about our data, they get the right answer. This is a fully remote role. Function Health is a distributed team, we hire across the US. Key Responsibilities Own the semantic layer: Design and maintain the metrics, dimensions, and data models that serve as the single source of truth across the business — built to be queried by humans and AI alike. Architect [... source excerpt omitted ...] org. Collaborate cross-functionally: Translate ambiguous business questions into data solutions; work with product engineering to improve event logging and measurement coverage. Qualifications/Skills 8+ years of analytics engineering, data engineering, or data architecture experience, with clear progression to staff-level scope and impact. Deep SQL expertise and strong Python skills. Strong data modeling fundamentals — you know what clean, extensible, well-documented models look like and can build and enforce that standard regardless of tooling. Experience with dbt is a plus. Experience with modern data stack tools: Databricks, Snowflake or BigQuery, Airflow or similar orchestrat
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