Data Architect, Charles River Development, Vice President

About the Role

Charles River Private Markets (CRPM) seeks a seasoned Data Architect to design and evolve scalable data platforms for our investment management and trading SaaS platform. This role requires strategic thinking, deep technical expertise, and a passion for delivering high quality, reliable data solutions that enable advanced analytics, reporting, and AI-driven use cases across global engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end to end data architecture design for a cloud native investment platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Define and enforce data architecture standards, including data modeling practices, data quality frameworks, and governance principles.
• Design logical and physical data models to support transactional systems, reporting, and analytics.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics teams to align data architecture with platform capabilities.
• Design and implement modern data platforms using AWS data services, supporting batch and real time processing.
• Define data integration patterns, including ETL/ELT pipelines and event driven architectures with Apache Kafka.
• Ensure platform meets enterprise grade standards for data security, privacy, availability, and compliance (e.g., SOC2, PCI DSS).
• Establish data lineage, observability, and monitoring practices for data quality, traceability, and reliability.
• Provide architectural direction across development teams and lead data focused design reviews.
• Participate in strategic planning, technical roadmap development, and system architecture reviews.
• Enable consistent data access patterns and support semantic layer definition to drive analytics and reporting.
• Support AI and machine learning initiatives by ensuring high quality, well governed data for downstream use cases.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to improve data quality, automate workflows, and enhance developer productivity.
• Lead modernization of legacy data platforms, transitioning to scalable, cloud native architectures.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• MS degree preferred.

Key Skills and Prior Experience

• 10+ years in data engineering or software engineering, with at least 5 years in a data architecture role.
• Proven track record designing and architecting modern data platforms and data intensive systems.
• Strong understanding of data modeling principles across operational and analytical systems.
• Experience with cloud native data technologies, particularly within AWS.
• Deep knowledge of data integration patterns, including batch, streaming, and event driven architectures.
• Experience with real time data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka.
• Strong grasp of distributed data processing and large scale data systems.
• Solid understanding of data security principles, including encryption, access controls, and secure design practices.
• Experience implementing data governance, data quality, and metadata management practices.
• Familiarity with building data platforms that support analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases.
• Experience with CI/CD practices for data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, and alerting for data systems.
• Proficiency in SQL; experience with programming languages such as Python.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within cross functional teams.

Benefits

Competitive and comprehensive benefits packages, including medical care, insurance, and savings plans. Flexibility through our Work Program and extensive development and educational support to help you reach your full potential.

Equal Opportunity Employer

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.