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GoFundMe

Location:
United States, San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

253500.00 - 380500.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

We are seeking a Data Platform Architect to join our Data Platform team. This role will be pivotal in modernizing our existing platform and building out a scalable data, reporting and AI architecture to provide scale, enhance product offerings, and meet new business requirements. You will design the blueprint for a modern cloud-native data ecosystem, ensuring it is robust, secure, and future-ready. By establishing standards, optimizing performance, and partnering cross-functionally, you will enable GoFundMe to harness data as a strategic asset that powers insights, innovation, and growth.

Job Responsibility:

Modernize, optimize and evolve a cloud-native data stack into a scalable, secure and high performing ecosystem such as SQL & NoSQL repositories for diverse workloads
Leverage modern data platform principles including lakehouse, data fabric and data mesh architectures to improve scalability, decentralization, governance, and interoperability
Design Scalable Architectures: Build flexible architectures to support analytics, real-time reporting, AI/ML Ops pipelines, feature stores, and graph-based data relationships
Unified Data Platform: Design high performing and cost effective solutions that handle both structured and unstructured data at high volume and high velocity
Establish Modeling Standards: Define enterprise-wide standards for data modeling, semantic layers, and golden datasets to enable consistency and reuse
Advance Governance & Quality: Implement frameworks for data lineage, quality, privacy, and security (GDPR, CCPA, PII protections)
Enable Personalization & Insights: Architect data capabilities that fuel advanced recommendations, relationship mapping, and connected user experiences
Evaluate & Integrate Technologies: Guide adoption of best-fit technologies to support evolving use cases in data science, AI, and scalable analytics
Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and data science teams to translate business vision into technical solutions
Mentor & Lead: Provide architectural leadership, coaching engineers on best practices while influencing strategic platform decisions

Requirements:

10+ years of experience in data architecture, platform engineering, or data engineering, with at least 3+ in a senior or architect role
Proven expertise with modern cloud-native data stacks including Snowflake, Databricks, MDM, Data Catalogs and CDPs
Hands-on experience with Looker or other BI/semantic modeling tools
Strong understanding of graph-based data models, recommendation systems, and personalization architectures
Expertise in data modeling, metadata management, and semantic layers
Proficiency with streaming/event-driven data pipelines and real-time processing (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Spark Streaming, etc.)
Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines, feature stores, and unstructured/structured data integration
Strong foundation in data governance, lineage, cataloging, and compliance frameworks
Excellent communication and leadership skills to align technical direction across diverse teams

What we offer:

Make an Impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year
Innovative Environment: Work with a diverse, passionate, and talented team in a fast-paced, forward-thinking atmosphere
Collaborative Team: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together
Competitive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits
Holistic Support: Enjoy financial assistance for things like hybrid work, family planning, along with generous parental leave, flexible time-off policies, and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being
Growth Opportunities: Participate in learning, development, and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow
Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups
Community Engagement: Make a difference through our volunteering program
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Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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