Principal Data Architect

PointClickCare

Mississauga, Canada
On-site
Define data persistence layers
Optimize storage and compute costs
Evaluate data technologies
This role is accountable for making data coherent, scalable, financially sustainable, and architecturally future-proof — ensuring our AI and analytics ambitions rest on a durable foundation

Job Summary

  • This role is accountable for making data coherent, scalable, financially sustainable, and architecturally future-proof — ensuring our AI and analytics ambitions rest on a durable foundation.
  • The Engineering Architecture team sets the technical direction for the Product & Engineering ecosystem at PointClickCare.
  • Recognized by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, we offer flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work.

Matching Summary

This role is accountable for making data coherent, scalable, financially sustainable, and architecturally future-proof — ensuring our AI and analytics ambitions rest on a durable foundation.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Define data persistence layers
  • Optimize storage and compute costs
  • Evaluate data technologies
  • Architect AI/ML data foundations
  • Establish data governance guardrails
  • Bridge product and engineering data language

Nice-to-have

  • Human-first healthcare future
  • AI as catalyst for creativity
  • Meaningful and lasting change

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in data architecture
  • 5 years in complex, multi-domain environments
  • Deep expertise in multi-layer persistence architectures
  • Strong understanding of partitioning, sharding, storage tiering
  • Experience enabling production AI/ML workloads
  • Hands-on fluency with tables, events, APIs
  • Experience evaluating and selecting technologies
  • Crisp communication skills
  • Understanding of healthcare data standards
  • Ability to combine strategic vision with pragmatic urgency

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