Chief Data Architect

Job Description

Who We Are

TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Cloud company with a mission to radically improve and extend human life. TetraScience combines the world's only open, purpose-built, and collaborative scientific data and AI cloud with deep scientific expertise across the value chain to accelerate and improve scientific outcomes. TetraScience is catalyzing the Scientific AI revolution by designing and industrializing AI-native scientific data sets, which it brings to life in a growing suite of next generation lab data management products, scientific use cases, and AI-based outcomes. For more information, please visit tetrascience.com.

Our core values are designed to guide our behaviors, actions, and decisions such that we operate as one. We are looking to add individuals to our team that demonstrate the following values:

• Transparency and Context- We execute on our ambitious mission by starting with radical data transparency and business context. We openly and proactively share all vital data and make it actionable, so our employees and stakeholders can solve any problem presented to them.
• Trust and Collaboration- We are committed to always communicating openly and honestly at every level of the organization, functionally, cross-functionally, internally, and externally. Empowering our employees will drive positive change across our entire ecosystem.
• Fearlessness and Resilience- We must be fearless and resilient to fulfill our potential. We proactively run toward challenges of all types, we unblinkingly acknowledge and confront the brutal facts - which all innovative growth companies invariably face – and we embrace uncertainty and take calculated risks.
• Alignment with Customers- We know that our customers' success is our success. We are honored and humbled by their commitment to us, and we are completely committed to ensuring they achieve their mission to unlock the world’s most important scientific innovations.
• Commitment to Craft- We take our craft seriously and seek to be best-in-class in all we do, regardless of our functional role, seniority, or tenure. We are members of one team that combines intellectual horsepower and curiosity, humility, and empathy to ensure we are always learning and evolving.
• Equality of Opportunity- We cannot imagine our journey without a workforce which reflects humanity’s diversity. We seek out the best of the best who bring with them unique and invaluable perspectives and talents and embody our common values - regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, or age.

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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• 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