Staff Data Architect

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NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls. Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms. That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including: Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies Five-time Top Workplace USA winner Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits If you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you. 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.  I