Data Architect - Staff Software Engineer

About the role

We are hiring a Staff Data Architect to shape the future of data architecture at Gap Inc. In this role, you will define and govern the architectural standards, patterns, and blueprints that underpin our cloud-native data platform — powering decision-making across our global retail business.

What you'll do

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture blueprints, reference architectures, and design standards across cloud-native data platforms
• Partner with Product Managers, Data Engineering leads, and Solution Architects to translate business requirements into scalable, future-proof data designs
• Lead the architecture and governance of data domains including data modelling, data mesh / data product design, and metadata management
• Define and enforce data modelling standards (conceptual, logical, physical) across relational, dimensional, and NoSQL stores
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to architect feature stores, MLOps pipelines, and model-serving data layers

What you need

• 9–11 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Data modelling
• Python
• Databricks
• dbt
• BigQuery
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Data privacy
• Power BI
• Looker
• Azure
• Terraform
• GCP