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This is a hands-on, engineering-focused architecture role at the start of a multi-phase programme, and the work is front-loaded: within the first quarter, the Data Architect will select the data platform, design the canonical data model that several product surfaces depend on, define the service contracts, and set the performance and multi-tenant data-isolation guarantees the team builds against. Working closely with the Lead Engineer, Lead Designer, Product Management, and Data Engineering, this role stays in the code, the query plans, and the review conversations rather than handing designs over a wall.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitecture Ownership: Own the end-to-end architecture for a data-intensive analytics capability embedded in an existing enterprise product.\nData Platform Selection: Evaluate and select the data platform for large-scale analytical queries, with a documented cost and performance basis for the decision.\nCanonical Data Model: Design a canonical data model that multiple source systems feed and multiple product surfaces consume, ensuring figures reconcile consistently across every surface.\nService Contracts & APIs: Define and publish service contracts and API specifications using a contract-first approach.\nNon-Functional Requirements: Set and defend latency targets, refresh cadence, and availability requirements, and make them measurable rather than aspirational.\nMulti-Tenant Data Isolation: Design tenant data isolation so that it is enforced structurally, not by convention.\nArchitecture Decisions & Reviews: Write architecture decision records that explain trade-offs honestly, including what would change the decision, and review designs and code across the team.\nCross-Functional Translation: Translate technical constraints into terms Product and Design can act on, and translate their requirements back into architecture.\nRequired Skills\nTypically 10+ years in software engineering, including substantial time in an architect, principal, or staff-level role owning system-level decisions.\nDemonstrable experience designing data-intensive applications: systems where query performance over large datasets is the central problem.\nExperience evaluating and selecting data platforms for large-scale analytical workloads, with a documented cost and performance basis for the decision.\nStrong SQL and relational data modelling; practical experience with analytical or columnar data stores and a clear view of when each is appropriate.\nExperience designing canonical data models that multiple source systems feed and multiple product surfaces consume, with figures that reconcile consistently.\nExperience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS systems, including data isolation enforced structurally rather than by convention.\nHands-on performance engineering: able to profile a slow query, decompose a latency budget, and define what to measure and at which percentile.\nWrites decisions down clearly (e.g., architecture decision records that explain trade-offs honestly) and can defend them to both engineers and non-engineers.\nWorking proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate design exploration, query analysis, and documentation, with the judgment to critically evaluate AI-generated output.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAPI design experience with a contract-first mindset.\nCloud platform experience (AWS), including infrastructure as code.\nExperience retrofitting analytics or reporting capability into an existing transactional product.\nExperience working with incomplete or inconsistent source data, and designing systems that stay trustworthy despite it.\nBackground in enterprise B2B SaaS or the legal technology domain.\nExperience with data anonymisation or aggregation where privacy guarantees matter.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3965,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Cybersecurity","Document Management","Digital Signature"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T11:59:25Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/onit-data-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/onit-data-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-02T03:04:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4605,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-03T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":58716},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=58716"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fonit-data-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fonit-data-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fonit-data-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/onit-data-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fonit-data-architect"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3520833}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"onit.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3520833},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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