Principal Data Architect
At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people.
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Principal Data Architect at PointClickCare in Mississauga. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people.
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- Establish Product & Engineering-wide standards for schemas, naming conventions, event patterns, canonical models, and data representation.
- Define how data persists across multiple layers (OLTP, OLAP, lakehouse, vector stores, feature stores) based on scale, performance, access patterns, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Set best practices for partitioning, sharding, indexing, storage tiering, lifecycle management, and performance optimization.
- Drive reduction of storage and compute costs through architectural optimization, compression, deduplication, and workload rationalization.
- Lead technology evaluations and define decision frameworks (e.g., Databricks vs Snowflake, Hudi vs Delta vs Iceberg, lakehouse vs warehouse, batch vs streaming).
- Define when to use batch, micro-batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures across domains.
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- Set best practices for partitioning, sharding, indexing, storage tiering, lifecycle management, and performance optimization.
- Drive reduction of storage and compute costs through architectural optimization, compression, deduplication, and workload rationalization.
- Lead technology evaluations and define decision frameworks (e.g., Databricks vs Snowflake, Hudi vs Delta vs Iceberg, lakehouse vs warehouse, batch vs streaming).
- Define when to use batch, micro-batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures across domains.
- Architect data foundations that power AI/ML and GenAI use cases, including semantic layers, feature stores, and vector-based retrieval (RAG).
- Establish governance guardrails for PHI/PII, interoperability standards (FHIR, USCDI), and data contracts.
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- Benefits starting from Day 1!
- Retirement Plan Matching
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Wellness Support Programs and Resources
- Parental & Caregiver Leaves
- Fertility & Adoption Support
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