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Our goal is to harness the power of the adaptive immune system to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treated.\nAs an Adapter, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. With Adaptive, you’ll create a career highlightthrough collaboration with bright, curious colleagues working at the apex of innovation and application.\nIt’s time for your next chapter. Discover your story with Adaptive.\nPosition Overview\nWe are looking to hire a Senior Data Architect to help define, mature, and scale our enterprise data architecture. This role will focus on designing trusted, well-governed, reusable, and scalable data assets that support business operations, reporting, analytics, data products, system integration, and emerging AI use cases.\nThe Senior Data Architect will partner with data engineering, application teams, analytics, security, governance, AI/ML, and business stakeholders to establish practical architecture standards, improve data usability, and ensure critical data sources are well-modeled, documented, discoverable, secure, and fit for purpose.\nThis role is critical to building a strong data foundation that enables consistent decision-making, operational efficiency, advanced analytics, and future-ready technology capabilities.\nKey Responsibilities and Essential Functions\nDefine and maintain data architecture standards, principles, patterns, and best practices across key business and data domains.\nAssess and rationalize critical data sources based on business value, quality, ownership, usage, 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stakeholders.\nAbility to balance long-term architecture direction with practical implementation guidance.\nExperience creating architecture artifacts such as data flow diagrams, domain models, source-to-target mappings, architecture decision records, and data standards documentation.\nPreferred\n10+ years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, data engineering, data integration, analytics architecture, or related data disciplines\nExperience supporting AI, machine learning, generative AI, LLM, RAG, or AI assistant initiatives as downstream consumers of governed data assets.\nFamiliarity with AI-enabling data concepts such as semantic layers, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, knowledge graphs, or ontology design.\nExperience with data product thinking, domain-oriented data ownership, or data mesh concepts.\nExperience in regulated environments with privacy, security, compliance, audit, or data protection requirements.\nExperience with platform modernization, 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Legitimate Adaptive employment opportunities are initiated through our careers page and extended after multiple interviews with verified employees. Adaptive does not ask new hires to purchase anything out-of-pocket, including home office supplies and equipment. \nInterested in this position, but don’t meet all the requirements? Adaptive is committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams across our organization. Please consider applying even if your experience doesn’t match all the qualifications; you may be the exact candidate we’re searching for!\nAdaptive is not currently sponsoring candidates requiring work authorization support for this position.\nAdaptive’s posted compensation information includes a base salary (or hourly rate) range and summary of other available total compensation. The base salary range represents a minimum-to-maximum salary (or hourly rate) available to candidates upon extension of offer. Base salary is thoughtfully considered upon offer and is determined through multiple evaluation checks throughout the interview process, including: a candidate’s ability to meet minimum qualifications (skills/experience/education), a candidate’s ability to thoughtfully address preferred qualifications, current market conditions, and internal pay equity. Listed base salary is exclusive of bonus, commission, equity, differential pay, benefits, and other incentives.\nAdaptive's benefits at-a-glance.\nAdaptive Biotechnologies is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Please refer the “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” Poster for more information. 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