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Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance.\nAt the heart of this mission is the Canton Network - the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance.\nFounded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney- we are on a mission to transform finance- and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.\nIf you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.\nAbout the role:\nAI is only as useful as the data it can safely reach. As Director, Data Architecture, you will own how our organization’s information, from databases to data warehouses to email, documents, Notion, Confluence, and Slack, becomes discoverable, trustworthy, and securely available to AI assistants, agents, and search tools.\nThis is a senior technical leadership role with enterprise-wide architectural accountability. You will own the direction, make the platform and standards decisions, and partner with Security, Legal, Privacy, product, engineering, and business leaders to ensure AI retrieves the right information for the right people and processes. This role focuses on data enablement and does not involve model training or development. You will initially be a team of one, hands-on while setting the foundation, and will build and lead a team of data architects and engineers as the company scales.\nResponsibilities:\nSet the architecture and strategy\nOwn the enterprise target-state data architecture for AI enablement, spanning our data stores, integration layers, and a unified access layer across structured and unstructured content\nSet reference architectures for retrieval-based AI: ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding, indexing, hybrid search, and retrieval APIs\nEstablish company-wide standards for connectors, data contracts, APIs, and MCP-style integrations that expose enterprise data to AI tools\nOwn a 12-month delivery roadmap and a multi-year data and AI-readiness strategy aligned to business priorities and budget, and secure executive sponsorship for both\nConnect structured and unstructured data\nSet the ingestion approach for structured sources (ERP, CRM, finance, HR, operational systems) using batch, change detection, and streaming patterns\nSet the ingestion approach for unstructured and semi-structured sources, including email, documents (PDF, documentation, spreadsheet, slides), wikis and knowledge bases (Notion, Confluence), collaboration tools (Slack, Google Drive), and ticketing systems (JIRA, Github)\nDefine how content is parsed, cleaned, deduplicated, enriched with metadata, and kept fresh through incremental sync, change detection, and deletion handling\nCreate and oversee a semantic and metadata layer (taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs where useful) so content from different systems can be connected and searched coherently\nProtect what matters\nBe accountable for permission-aware AI retrieval that respects source-system access controls and user entitlements\nLead data governance in partnership with Security, Privacy and Legal , including cataloging, lineage, metadata, ownership, retention, and quality standards\nDefine enterprise policies for sensitive content in AI contexts, such as PII, confidential material, redaction, consent, and legal hold\nShape the organization’s AI data-risk posture and partner with Security, Privacy, and Legal to meet regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, SOX, EU AI Act as applicable)\nRaise data readiness and quality\nDefine readiness criteria covering completeness, freshness, duplication, ownership, access rights, and content quality\nEstablish how retrieval quality, coverage, and stale content are measured, and ensure evaluation sets are maintained\nPrioritize cleanup of high-value, high-risk sources such as outdated wikis, conflicting policy documents, and orphaned files\nAct as the final check on delivery quality, ensuring the team’s output meets the standards of a scaling, high-growth environment\nLead the team and the conversation\nBuild the team over time, hiring and developing data architects and engineers, and set the operating model for data practices across the organization.\nTranslate AI use cases from application and business teams into enterprise clear data requirements and investment priorities\nOwn vendor strategy, build-versus-buy analyses, and the related budget\nReport progress, trade-offs, and risks to senior and executive stakeholders, escalating early with proposed mitigations\nWhat We're Looking For:\nExperience\n10+ years in data engineering, data architecture, or information management\n5+ years leading architecture functions or teams, with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and influencing across organizations.\nA track record of delivering enterprise-scale cloud data platforms that integrate many source systems\nExperience leading enterprise programs that integrate unstructured content (documents, email, wikis, collaboration tools) with structured data and search or retrieval architectures\nExperience designing or governing access control and entitlement models for enterprise data\nProven delivery of data governance, cataloging, and data quality programs\nExperience managing budgets and vendor relationships\nBachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field (master's a plus)\nTechnical expertise\nCloud and data platforms: GCP; Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift; lakehouse formats such as Delta or Iceberg\nIntegration: CDC tools, REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks, OAuth\nSource systems: Google Workspace, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Slack, Salesforce, Netsuite\nUnstructured data: document parsing and OCR, chunking, metadata extraction, entity recognition, deduplication\nSearch and retrieval: Vector databases, hybrid keyword and semantic search, reranking, embedding pipelines\nSecurity: IAM, ACL propagation, encryption, masking, tokenization, DLP, row and column-level security\n Engineering: SQL and Python; CI/CD; Pulumi (sufficient depth to guide and review team design decisions)\nLeadership qualities\nClear, executive-level communication and strong stakeholder management\nThe ability to build consensus across IT, security, legal, and business teams\nPragmatic prioritization between ideal architecture, risk, cost, and speed\nA genuine commitment to developing people and leaders\nThe ability to unblock teams before tactical issues become strategic risks\nNice to Have\nExperience with enterprise search, knowledge management, or content management platforms\nFamiliarity with generative AI patterns (RAG, agents, MCP) from the data-supply side\nKnowledge of records management, eDiscovery, and legal hold\nCertifications such as AWS, Azure, or GCP architect credentials\nFinOps experience managing data platform and indexing costs\nExperience in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or insurance\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn your first year, you will have:\nConnected, cataloged, and governed our priority structured and unstructured data sources\nDelivered audited, permission-aware retrieval with zero access-leak incidents\nReduced the time to onboard a new data source for AI use\nEstablished reference architectures and reusable data products adopted across teams\nRaised content freshness and retrieval quality across our key knowledge sources\nPresented the multi-year roadmap and AI data-risk posture to executive leadership\nThe range below may vary if based outside the New York tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). Base salaries are determined during our interview process, during which we assess the candidate's experience, skills, and capabilities against internal peers and the scope and responsibilities of the position.\nUS Pay Transparency\n$225—$260 USD\n#LI-Hybrid\nAt Digital Asset, we are committed to compensation structures that reward impact consistently across our global teams. We support our people at every stage of life with comprehensive, family-forward benefits and flexible working models designed to help you do your best work.\nBenefits We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our team members. Health and insurance benefits vary by region to ensure local relevance and compliance, and may include medical, dental, and vision coverage. \nEqual Opportunity EmployerDigital Asset is an equal opportunity employer committed. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\nEmployment Eligibility If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire.\nAccommodations Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation during the application or interview process should contact .\nCalifornia Privacy Act (CCPA) If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked 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