Chief Data Architect

Who We Are

TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Cloud company. We are catalyzing the Scientific AI revolution by designing and industrializing AI-native scientific data sets, which we bring to life in a growing suite of next gen lab data management solutions, scientific use cases, and AI-enabled outcomes. 

TetraScience is the category leader in this vital new market, generating more revenue than all other companies in the aggregate. In the last year alone, the world’s dominant players in compute, cloud, data, and AI infrastructure have converged on TetraScience as the de facto standard, entering into co-innovation and go-to-market partnerships:

In connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review the Tetra Way letter, authored directly by Patrick Grady, our co-founder and CEO. This letter is designed to assist you in better understanding whether TetraScience is the right fit for you from a values and ethos perspective. 

It is impossible to overstate the importance of this document and you are encouraged to take it literally and reflect on whether you are aligned with our unique approach to company and team building. If you join us, you will be expected to embody its contents each day. 

Who You Are

You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with fellow engineers, managers, designers, user researchers, executives, customers and inspire them to do their best. You relentlessly strive to excel in your craft. You take pride in your craft and are passionate about continuously improving both what we deliver and how we deliver our products to the customers. You take ownership of all the aspects of software design and architecture deliverables you are working on. You consistently seek understanding and clarity. You look at every interaction as an opportunity to learn. You aren’t afraid to ask questions. You have the humility and confidence to not be the smartest person in the room.

In this critical leadership role you will own the technical strategy for the data architecture. You will work closely with product, engineering, and executive leadership team to ensure that product strategy and execution are in concert with the overall architecture plan.

What You Will Do

• Own, define, communicate, and drive our technical vision, data architectural strategy for TetraScience Scientific Data Cloud
• Devise the strategy to support very diverse data domains and evolve the product to support high scale and downstream, analytics, and AI/ML use cases especially on harmonizing data from heterogenous instruments and software to accelerate data exploration and analysis
• Design the schema, taxonomy, and ontologies for scientific use cases
• Support and advise executive leadership regarding technical and architectural feasibility, implications, readiness, and data integrity
• Provide key inputs into technology evaluation and technology planning activities
• Drive innovations with tangible examples to improve the consistency, usability, ease of maintenance of our data architecture, and minimize impact to our data customers
• Communicate the architecture to the engineering and product teams, customers, and stakeholders
• Mentor and train other team members of the Tetra Data team on design techniques, data modeling, data query and processing technologies, systems architecture and coding standards
• Stay on the cutting edge of emerging technology, forging key relationships with peers
• Provide thought leadership and represent TetraScience at industry and technology conferences

• 15+ years’ experience designing and building highly scalable, mission-critical distributed software systems, focused on analytical data processing
• Deep understanding of Data Architecture, Data Modeling, and Design
• Hands-on experience in designing schema, taxonomy, and ontology for life sciences domain
• Understanding of modeling strategies (dimensional, snowflake, relational, unstructured)
• Significant experience with ETL / data orchestration, data integration, data lakes, data warehouses, and data science/machine learning tooling
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural vision for a company or highly scalable line of products
• Proven track-record of success evolving and informing product strategy within a start-up environment through prototypes and working code
• Proficient in Python
• Demonstrable curiosity and drive to learn, with the ability to translate these qualities into tangible results
• Excellent problem solving, collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability and desire for transparent communication and influence at the executive level
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and bring ideas to the table

• 100% employer paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.
• 401K.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.

No visa sponsorship is available for this position