About The Role
HiBob is building a scalable data platform that powers our product, analytics, and AI capabilities. We’re looking for an Architect to shape the technical direction of the Data Platform group - helping teams make high-quality architectural decisions faster and turning complex, cross-cutting challenges into clear, pragmatic paths forward.
Reporting to the Data Platform Group Director and working alongside Team Leads, you’ll be the group’s senior individual-contributor architect. You will guide architecture across our Data Infrastructure, Data Engine, and Data Framework teams, with particular emphasis on data-intensive application architecture.
You’ll stay close to technical design, delivery, and production - not only to define direction, but to ensure it works in practice.
Responsibilities
What you’ll doSet and evolve the architectural direction for the Data Platform group, balancing long-term platform strategy with pragmatic, executable decisions.
Lead cross-team design reviews and drive alignment on significant technical decisions, including the trade-offs behind them.
Create clear design documents, reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns that enable teams to make high-quality decisions independently.
Partner with engineers and Team Leads through critical stages of delivery to preserve architectural intent, resolve emerging trade-offs, and ensure designs work in production.
Guide the evolution of data-intensive applications and platform capabilities across data access, query and application frameworks, streaming, storage, reliability, scalability, and security.
Drive incremental modernization of existing systems - including migrations, simplification, and architectural improvements - without compromising customer reliability or delivery momentum.
Build foundations that enable product teams to access and operate on data safely and efficiently, including permission-aware access to sensitive HR data.
Ensure the platform is ready for trusted analytics and AI use cases through robust data contracts, governance, observability, lineage, and secure access patterns.
Mentor engineers and raise the bar for technical thinking, system design, and execution across the group.
What you bringExtensive experience as a Software Architect, Principal Engineer, or Staff engineer in data-intensive, distributed applications.
A proven ability to independently make sound technical decisions and solve complex, ambiguous problems across multiple teams and systems.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, including the trade-offs among consistency, reliability, performance, scalability, and operability.
Hands-on experience designing and evolving application-facing data platforms, APIs, frameworks, or query and data-access layers.
Strong knowledge of technologies such as PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Cloud Infrastructure, and complex data systems.
Experience evolving complex production systems through migration, decomposition, or modernization - not only designing greenfield systems.
A practical architecture mindset: able to balance long-term direction with delivery needs and make trade-offs explicit.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly for architecture reviews, technical decision records, and cross-team alignment.
Experience with sensitive data, security, privacy, permissions, or multi-tenant systems is a strong advantage.
Experience enabling analytics, semantic data access, or AI-ready data platforms is a strong advantage.
