Staff Data Architect

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We strive to win together through passionate hard work, exploring new things and recognizing every interaction matters.   NetDocuments provides rewarding career growth in an inclusive, diverse environment where employees are encouraged to openly contribute creative ideas and innovation, backed by supportive peers and leadership working together to achieve our goals as a unified team.   At our core, we are dedicated to empowering our employees to drive successful business outcomes and better user experiences for our customers and partners. Our customer-centric approach and employee enablement has allowed us to enjoy many accolades, including being named among the 2022,  2023, & 2024 list of Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America.   Other recent awards include:   Five-time winner (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021) Top Workplace in the US by the Salt Lake Tribune Four-time winner (2025, 2023, 2022, 2021) Best Companies to Work for by Utah Business magazine Three-time winner (2025, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Employee Appreciation and Employee Well-Being Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Work-Life Flexibility Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Compensation & Benefits Two-time winner (2024, 2023) National Top Workplaces Two-time winner (2024, 2023) Top Workplace Innovation 2025 Remote Work 2024 Technology Industry NetDocuments is a hybrid, remote-friendly workplace. Come join our team and work inspired each day!   The opportunity   NetDocuments is the world’s #1 trusted cloud content management and productivity platform for legal professionals, and the data beneath it is becoming our most strategic asset. We are looking for a Data Architect to set the north-star data strategy for the company and lead the re-architecture of our data platforms for a cloud-native, AWS-centered future.  This is a defining, high-visibility role. You will own the blueprint for how billions of legal documents and the metadata around them are stored, governed, moved, and surfaced, and you will translate that architecture into measurable business outcomes: faster product velocity, lower run-rate cost, new data-driven and AI-powered capabilities, and the trust that lets the world’s leading law firms and corporate legal teams build on us. You will operate at the intersection of cloud transformation, large-scale distributed systems, data governance, and emerging AI, partnering directly with Engineering, Product, Security, and senior leadership.  If you want your architectural decisions to directly shape a market-leading SaaS platform and the revenue it generates, this is that role.  What you’ll do  Set the north-star data strategy. Define a clear, multi-year vision for NetDocuments’ data architecture and turn it into a pragmatic, sequenced roadmap that leadership, engineering, and product teams rally behind.  Lead the AWS re-architecture of data platforms. Drive the strategy for re-platforming and re-architecting large-scale, on-premises and legacy data systems into cloud-native AWS architectures, defining migration patterns, data-residency strategies, and low-risk cutover plans that minimize downtime.  Own our NoSQL data platforms. Lead the architecture of our large-scale NoSQL systems—with deep, hands-on ownership of Couchbase and DynamoDB—including data modeling, partitioning and indexing strategies, consistency and access patterns, and tuning for performance, reliability, and cost at scale. Extend that ownership to event streaming (Kafka) and our Snowflake-based analytics platform, ensuring a coherent design across the full data estate.  Build event-driven data systems. Architect reliable, observable, real-time data infrastructure using technologies such as Kafka, SQS, and SNS, and define standards for event schema design, topic management, consumer patterns, and end-to-end data lineage. Partner with principal engineers and delivery teams to shape enterprise-wide eventing strategy and drive its adoption across product domains.  Drive data governance and security. Establish and enforce standards for classification, access control, encryption, retention, and auditability, ensuring alignment with frameworks such as SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA, and partner with Security on threat modeling and risk mitigation.  Make data AI-ready. Shape the data foundations that power analytics and emerging AI/ML and GenAI capabilities across the product, so NetDocuments can move quickly and responsibly as the market evolves.  Prototype and incubate new technology. Lead proofs of concept and proofs of technology for new data systems and approaches, build production-quality prototypes, and pilot promising solutions before handing them to delivery and data engineering teams to drive to completion—including the observability and production-hardening needed for a clean handoff.  Evaluate technology and guide build-vs-buy. Assess emerging tools, databases, and vendors against our needs, run structured comparisons, and make clear, defensible build-versus-buy recommendations.  Influence strategy and execution. Lead architectural reviews, RFC processes, and documentation standards; influence roadmap prioritization with data-driven insight; and represent the data platform in cross-functional planning and executive-level discussions.  What you’ll need to be successful  10+ years in data architectu