As a Architect, you will lead the definition, governance, and continuous evolution of the enterprise data architecture vision and roadmap, ensuring strong alignment with business strategy and digital transformation goals. This role is accountable for establishing modern, secure, and scalable data platform architecture that integrate generative AI and self-service capabilities across the organization. You will assume end-to-end technical responsibility for the data platform architecture.
The role requires deep expertise in data architecture & data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and platform security. You will guide the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies, oversee PoC initiatives, and drive the operationalization of AI driven solutions.
Working closely with data engineering, analytics, security, and business teams, you will ensure the delivery of trusted, high performing, and future ready AI driven data platforms that scale with organizational needs.
What you'll do:
Strategy, AI Engineering & Vision- Define and incorporate an AI first approach and strategy into the enterprise data architecture and vision
- Establish the strategy and vision for how the entire data foundation will change with AI
- Provide deep technical expertise in RAG models and semantic data search, semantic data models
- Architect solutions for AI driven data engineering including unstructured data processing and AI driven dashboards & reports
- Drive the operationalization of AI/ML and GenAI solutions, ensuring responsible AI practices and model governance.
- Apply full stack knowledge (backend, identity, front-end, Auth, and APIs) as the platform moves toward application centric delivery.
- Design end-to-end data architectures, including ingestion, data processing, and consumption layers.
- Platform engineering by developing and overseeing PoC’s
- Establish architectural principles, standards, and best practices across data modeling, integration, and metadata management
- Design an architecture that is completely self-oriented to support business self serve reporting and dashboarding.
- Focus on enabling tools that make processes fully self-serve to reduce dependency on central IT teams.
- Architect robust RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) layers and thoughtful metadata building.
- Design governed data layers and semantic models for trusted access.
- Enhance developer efficiency by utilizing AI tools to streamline the creation of data foundations, ETL pipelines, and model designs, while also improving the quality of AI-powered reporting and dashboards.
- Define and enforce comprehensive data governance standards, including lineage, data quality, and observability, specifically tailored for AI-driven data products.
- Architect a governed semantic layer (Knowledge Fabric) to ensure centralized definition of critical business metrics and consistent outputs for conversational analytics agents.
- Drive AI-generated dashboards and reports to accelerate report generation, reduce backlog, and improve developer productivity.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- 10 - 15+ years in data engineering or platform architecture with a shift toward high level technical leadership
- Strong experience designing and implementing modern data architectures and cloud data platforms.
- Deep hands on expertise of full stack development that includes front end & back end technologies, DevOps infrastructure
- Experience with Snowflake, Tableau or similar technologies, Expertise in AI/ML platforms and the engineering required to support GenAI at scale
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, and advanced data modeling,
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Excellent stakeholder management skills to align technical data products with business needs.
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying applications/Skills on AI-powered platforms such as Claude Code and Cowork.
Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
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Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.
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Skills Required
- 10 - 15+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or platform architecture roles
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- Strong experience designing and implementing modern data architectures and cloud data platforms
- Hands-on and architectural experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse/data lake experience
- Hands-on experience with Tableau or similar BI tools
- Hands-on experience with Fivetran or equivalent ingestion tools
- Hands-on experience with dbt or similar data transformation frameworks
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, Spark, and data modeling techniques
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
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Rubrik Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage includes multiple UMR PPO/HDHP and Kaiser HMO options with 100% preventive care and relatively low employee premiums, plus dental and vision. HSA contributions of $900 individual and $1,800 family further strengthen value for HDHP enrollees.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-forming benefits include support via Carrot/Progyny with up to $25,000 lifetime reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy, alongside paid parental and family care leave. This breadth supports diverse paths to parenthood and caregiving needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental health access via Modern Health provides 10 therapy and 10 coaching sessions at no cost, complemented by a $50/month Forma wellness stipend. Additional perks such as commuter benefits, legal and pet insurance, and hybrid work broaden lifestyle support.
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What We Do
Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.
Why Work With Us
At Rubrik, we believe in the Power of You. You have limitless potential to grow, innovate, and create meaningful impact. United by our purposeful mission, we empower you to boldly pursue your ambitions, shape the future of cybersecurity, and make your unique mark on what we're building. Join us, and unlock your infinite potential.
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