Data and Integration Architect

October 23

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Cayuse

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SaaS • Compliance • Productivity

Cayuse is a leading provider of research administration software, catering to over 670 top global research organizations. Their connected cloud platform aims to modernize research administration by addressing various administrative challenges, enhancing risk management, resource management, and security in research settings. Cayuse's software solutions are designed to minimize risk, maximize efficiency, and optimize planning for data-driven organizations, serving administrators, researchers, and leadership teams. Their solutions include tools for fund management, ethics and oversight compliance, hazard safety, and training records, making it easy to manage billions in research funds.

201 - 500 employees

☁️ SaaS

📋 Compliance

⚡ Productivity

📋 Description

• Define and drive a comprehensive data and integration strategy aligned with SaaS multi-tenancy, security, and scalability requirements. • Collaborate with product management, engineering leadership, fellow architects, and business stakeholders to design interoperable and future-proof data and integration solutions. • Establish and evolve the suite’s conceptual, logical, and physical data models, ensuring consistency, flexibility, and efficiency across products. • Develop a unified data model for the suite, defining common entities and relationships across multiple product domains. • Define extensible data architectures, supporting multi-tenant and customer-specific configurations (e.g., custom form definitions) without compromising performance. • Lead the development of governance frameworks, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance (including regulatory considerations such as HITRUST, HIPAA, GDPR, and FedRAMP where applicable). • Guide decisions on database and data management solutions tailored to specific use cases, considering performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. • Design dynamic data extension mechanisms to support customer-specific tenant requirements (e.g., custom form definitions). • Design and standardize suite-wide API and data exchange patterns, ensuring seamless integration between products and external ecosystems. • Define and advocate for event-driven architectures, ensuring scalable and decoupled integrations across Cayuse’s platforms. • Partner with engineering teams to implement high-performance, scalable APIs for both internal and external use cases, ensuring data consistency and efficiency. • Support decisions on data ingress, egress, synchronization, and replication across the suite. • Partner with stakeholders to ensure alignment between governance and operational data practices. • Balance strategic vision with tactical execution, actively engaging in architecture and design reviews, providing technical leadership and best practices to engineering teams. • Deliver reusable data and integration patterns, accelerating product development and improving system maintainability. • Educate and mentor engineers, product teams, and stakeholders on modern data architectures, API design, and integration principles. • Drive hands-on efforts in conceptual, logical, and physical modeling for complex or strategic use cases. • Partner with SREs and DevOps teams to optimize data infrastructure and integration reliability, scalability, and security. • Provide expert guidance on ensuring data quality and integrity across the entire data lifecycle, including customer onboarding, synchronization, and transformation. • Define monitoring, observability, and data lineage strategies, ensuring transparency and operational efficiency.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated success as a Data Architect, Integration Architect, or in a similar role, within a multi-tenant SaaS environment. • Expertise in data modeling at all levels (conceptual, logical, and physical), including experience with dynamic and extensible models. • Proficiency in database and data management technologies, including relational (e.g., Postgres) and cloud-native solutions (e.g., Snowflake, AWS RDS). • Deep understanding of API design principles, including REST, bulk file-based, asynchronous, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, AWS EventBridge). • Deep understanding of data warehouses, including design, optimization, and best practices for analytics. • Experience designing and implementing scalable, tenant-aware data architectures. • Strong grasp of modern integration patterns, including API gateways, data streaming, and hybrid batch-stream processing. • Knowledge of modern data governance practices including data security, lineage, observability, and compliance requirements. • Excellent collaboration, communication, and influence skills, with experience working across product, architecture, engineering, and operational teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Medical Benefits (PPO + HSA available) • Vision, Dental, Short-Term Disability fully covered by Cayuse • Unlimited PTO + Holidays + Flexible Work Schedule • Remote Work Stipend • Equal Paid Parental Leave • 401k with Employer Matching • Quarterly Wellness Reimbursement • Remote Work Environment, supporting the Ultimate Employee Experience