Data Architect
AI summary of the role
TerraPower is hiring a Data Architect to design, govern, and standardize the enterprise data ecosystem, including a data lakehouse and potential Data Hub strategy to accelerate AI-training readiness.
What you’ll do
- Establish enterprise-wide data governance policies, standards, and best practices for data creation, storage, access, quality, and lifecycle management
- Design and evolve the enterprise data lake into a data lakehouse architecture, ensuring scalability for future application acquisitions
- Lead architectural design of data ingestion, transformation, and storage patterns within Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics
- Partner with Infrastructure Architect and Cybersecurity to align data platform design with infrastructure, networking, and compliance requirements
What you’ll bring
- 9+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or related technical discipline
- Demonstrated experience designing and governing enterprise data lakes or large-scale data platforms
- Deep hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics (dedicated SQL pool and serverless)
- Strong experience with data modeling (relational, dimensional, and NoSQL data models)
Technologies
Azure Data Factory · Azure Synapse Analytics · Azure Data Lake Storage · Azure Purview · Delta Lake · Apache Spark · Oracle · MySQL · SQL Server · Postgres · Cosmos DB · Fabric
About TerraPower
Develops Natrium sodium fast reactors with thermal storage for utilities and data centers, and supplies Actinium-225 isotopes for targeted cancer-therapy developers.
Private Late · 500–1000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
design, governance, and standards of our enterprise data ecosystem. Our organization continues to add applications and data and we are looking to design and implement a scalable, governed data infrastructure, potentially centered around a unified Data Hub strategy to accelerate AI-training readiness, and to provide frictionless data-sharing and data interoperability. This role will establish the policies, patterns, and platforms that enable confident decision-making across the business. The role will work hands-on within our Azure-centric stack, primarily Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics, while partnering closely with Data Engineers, Application, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity resources. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role with visibility across the entire organization. Key Responsibilities Data Governance & Standards Establish and champion enterprise-wide
More from the job description
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