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Principal Data Architect
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 8+ years
Job description
A Principal Data Architect role at Massive Rocket, turning complex client requirements into scalable data solutions for global brands. The role leads technical discovery, designs end-to-end data architectures, and builds roadmaps connecting customer data, identity, and marketing technology to business outcomes.
At a glance
- Employment
- Employee or contractor
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Lead client discovery workshops to assess existing data platforms, identity frameworks, integrations, and business requirements
- Align marketing, data, engineering, and product stakeholders on scope, priorities, and success measures
- Design end-to-end data architectures integrating Snowflake, Databricks, mParticle, Hightouch, Braze, and wider MarTech platforms
- Define data models, identity resolution, consent, and data quality frameworks across multiple brands and markets
- Plan migrations from marketing, loyalty, and messaging platforms into modern data architectures
- Develop technical roadmaps, estimate delivery effort, define project phases, and secure client sign-off before implementation
- Evaluate data technologies and tools based on business requirements, scalability, performance, and cost
- Guide Data Engineering teams in designing and optimising batch, event-driven, and low-latency data pipelines
- Establish best practices for data validation, monitoring, performance optimisation, and governance
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations that demonstrate business value
- Mentor engineers and consultants, lead technical reviews, and drive continuous improvement
- Support client pitches, technical presentations, workshops, and opportunities to expand existing engagements
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of experience in Data Architecture or Solution Architecture, including at least 5 years in technical leadership
- Deep hands-on expertise in Snowflake, Databricks, and customer data platforms
- Proven experience integrating cloud data warehouses with MarTech, CRM, customer engagement, and analytics platforms
- Strong understanding of identity resolution, customer profiles, and linking anonymous and known customer activity across multiple data sources
- Extensive experience in data modelling, reverse ETL, pipeline architecture, data integration, and performance optimisation
- Strong SQL and Python skills, with familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices
- Experience leading discovery workshops and translating business requirements into robust technical architectures
- Ability to scope and estimate delivery phases, document technical designs, and secure formal client approval
- Experience mentoring engineers or consultants and providing technical direction across multiple projects
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in an agency or consulting environment, managing multiple client engagements
- Willingness to travel to client locations when required
- Valid work visa (no sponsorship available)
Nice to have
- Hightouch experience
- Certifications in Snowflake, data architecture, CDPs, or relevant MarTech platforms
- Familiarity with Braze, Amplitude, GA4, and marketing automation within composable CDP or warehouse-native architectures
- Understanding of data privacy, security, consent, and regulatory requirements for customer data
- Experience developing technical proposals, delivering client presentations, and leading workshops or training sessions
- A track record of introducing new technologies or architectural improvements that deliver measurable business outcomes
Your team
Data Engineering
The Data Engineering teams work closely with the Principal Data Architect, who provides technical direction and guides architecture decisions.
Benefits
- Rocket-Fuelled Growth – Big challenges, fast learning, and the chance to level up quicker than anywhere else
- A Culture That Actually Gives a Damn – Supportive, positive, and built around people who want to see you win
- A Global Crew – Collaborate with brilliant teammates across Europe, the US, and beyond
- Remote-First for Life – Work from wherever you feel your best
- Real Career Momentum – Clear progression, real ownership, and space to grow into your next chapter
- Moments That Matter – Meetups, events, and team experiences that make the journey unforgettable
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About Massive Rocket
A rapidly scaling Braze and Snowflake agency
Massive Rocket is a rapidly scaling Braze and Snowflake agency that builds human experiences at scale, powered by cutting-edge web, mobile, cloud, data, and AI technologies. In five years it has grown at speed and is gearing up for its next milestone of $100M in revenue.
Mission
To transform how digital marketing, product, and engineering teams connect
Key facts
- Marketing technology agency
- Grown at speed in just five years
- Gearing up to hit $100M in revenue
- Global crew across Europe, the US, and beyond
- BYOD policy
- No visa sponsorship available
What they value
- Ownership
- Collaboration
- Growth