<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1.5;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(40, 40, 40);">About Us</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">Our leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™ enables clients to expand into over 180 countries quickly and efficiently, without the complexities of establishing local entities. At G-P, we’re dedicated to breaking down barriers to global business and creating opportunities for everyone, everywhere.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">Our diverse, remote-first teams are essential to our success. We empower our Dream Team members with flexibility and resources, fostering an environment where innovation thrives and every contribution is valued and celebrated.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">The work you do here will positively impact lives around the world. We stand by our promise: Opportunity Made Possible. In addition to competitive compensation and benefits, we invite you to join us in expanding your skills and helping to reshape the future of work.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: 12pt;">At G-P, we assist organizations in building exceptional global teams in days, not months—streamlining the hiring, onboarding, and management process to unlock growth potential for all.</span></p></div><p><strong>About The Position:</strong></p> <p>As the <strong>Data Architect for the G-P Data Platform</strong>, you will be responsible for defining and driving the execution of our target-state, Databricks-native architecture across our data platform. This role balances strategic technical leadership with hands-on technical execution, ensuring our engineering investments align directly with customer expectations and our long-term technology vision.</p> <p>Reporting into the <strong>Architecture team</strong>, you will work in close partnership with Product Management, Cloud Operations, Business Operations, and cross-functional engineering squads. You will act as a trusted technical advocate and mentor, driving platform consistency, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO), and further enhancing our world-class data analytics and reporting capabilities.</p> <h2><strong>What You Will Do:</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Target-State Architecture:</strong> Design and drive the execution of a scalable, cloud-native target-state architecture across the end-to-end software platform.</li> <li><strong>Ingestion architecture:</strong> Define architectural patterns for scalable automated data ingestion</li> <li><strong>Hands-on Execution & PoCs:</strong> Deliver hands-on proof-of-concepts (PoCs) alongside engineering teams using SQL, PySpark, Serverless Python or other platform languages to validate design decisions.</li> <li><strong>Governance & Consistency:</strong> Drive architecture consistency across all platform components to harmonize integration, maximize component reuse, and eliminate technical debt. Act as an SME for data governance designs and implementation.</li> <li><strong>Security & Compliance:</strong> Define and enforce data platform security standards and infrastructure security to prevent platform and data breaches.</li> <li><strong>Product & Business Alignment:</strong> Partner with Product Management to define our application analytics strategy and gain a deep business understanding of aligned domain areas.</li> <li><strong>Technology Innovation:</strong> Serve as the strategic sounding board for validating and introducing new technologies, open-source solutions, and 3rd-party applications.</li> <li><strong>System Reliability:</strong> Ensure system and infrastructure architecture design results in high availability, low latency, and minimal service outages as a core measure of success.</li> <li><strong>Engineering Excellence:</strong> Evangelize architectural best practices, educate engineering teams, and advocate for continuous improvement and developer enablement.</li> <li><strong>AIDLC Contribution:</strong> Contribute to our AI-Powered agentic development capabilities as they relate to the data platform, data transformation and analytics.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We Are Looking For:</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Minimum Requirements:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Data Architecture Experience:</strong> Extensive data architecture background driving architectural and design decisions in Cloud data platforms within software-centric organizations. Strong Data Modeling and Governance experience.</li> <li><strong>Data Platforms:</strong> Strong Databricks experience (or another lakehouse platform based on Spark)</li> <li><strong>Technical Proficiency:</strong> Proven hands-on capability with the modern data stack and a history of building/designing complex technical solutions. Expertise in developing solutions with SQL and PySpark. </li> <li><strong>AI Skills:</strong> Experience with using agentic AI in the SDLC for efficiency gains, an