Principal Data Architect

Posted:
11/17/2025, 2:55:26 AM

Location(s):
Pleasanton, California, United States ⋅ New York, United States ⋅ Portland, Oregon, United States ⋅ Georgia, United States ⋅ Oregon, United States ⋅ New York, New York, United States ⋅ California, United States ⋅ Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Data & Analytics

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced enterprise data architect to own and drive our company’s data architecture, data model, master data governance and analytics platform. You will be responsible for defining the enterprise data model and entity relationships across our business systems (including COTS ERPs such as Salesforce, NetSuite and our proprietary telemetry/usage systems and internal software) and for governing master data and enterprise metadata. You will lead the architecture and implementation of our data lake / data-warehouse environment (e.g., Snowflake) and be an expert in leveraging tools (including AI offerings such as Cortex or other advanced AI platforms). You will also own enterprise operational and financial reporting and analytics, leading a team to deliver high-quality insights and visualizations to drive business decisions. This is a strategic role in a fast-growing SaaS company (~$500M revenue) and you will be a key leader for data-driven growth. 
About our culture

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.