GoFundMe · 6 days ago
Data Platform Architect
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$254K/yr - $380K/yr
10+ years expGoFundMe is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. The Data Platform Architect will be responsible for modernizing the existing platform and building out a scalable data, reporting, and AI architecture to enhance product offerings and meet new business requirements.
CrowdfundingInternetPeer to Peer
Responsibilities
Modernize, optimize and evolve a cloud-native data stack into a scalable, secure and high performing ecosystem such as SQL & NoSQL repositories for diverse workloads
Leverage modern data platform principles including lakehouse, data fabric and data mesh architectures to improve scalability, decentralization, governance, and interoperability
Design Scalable Architectures: Build flexible architectures to support analytics, real-time reporting, AI/ML Ops pipelines, feature stores, and graph-based data relationships
Unified Data Platform: Design high performing and cost effective solutions that handle both structured and unstructured data at high volume and high velocity
Establish Modeling Standards: Define enterprise-wide standards for data modeling, semantic layers, and golden datasets to enable consistency and reuse
Advance Governance & Quality: Implement frameworks for data lineage, quality, privacy, and security (GDPR, CCPA, PII protections)
Enable Personalization & Insights: Architect data capabilities that fuel advanced recommendations, relationship mapping, and connected user experiences
Evaluate & Integrate Technologies: Guide adoption of best-fit technologies to support evolving use cases in data science, AI, and scalable analytics
Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and data science teams to translate business vision into technical solutions
Mentor & Lead: Provide architectural leadership, coaching engineers on best practices while influencing strategic platform decisions
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in data architecture, platform engineering, or data engineering, with at least 3+ in a senior or architect role
Proven expertise with modern cloud-native data stacks including Snowflake, Databricks, MDM, Data Catalogs and CDPs
Hands-on experience with Looker or other BI/semantic modeling tools
Strong understanding of graph-based data models, recommendation systems, and personalization architectures
Expertise in data modeling, metadata management, and semantic layers
Proficiency with streaming/event-driven data pipelines and real-time processing (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Spark Streaming, etc.)
Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines, feature stores, and unstructured/structured data integration
Strong foundation in data governance, lineage, cataloging, and compliance frameworks
Excellent communication and leadership skills to align technical direction across diverse teams
Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare benefits
Financial assistance for things like hybrid work, family planning, along with generous parental leave, flexible time-off policies, and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being
Learning, development, and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow
Company
GoFundMe
GoFundMe is the world’s largest fundraising platform, helping people, causes, and charities raise money fast and efficiently.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (19)
2024 (10)
2023 (10)
2022 (9)
2021 (9)
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2015-07-02Series A
2014-04-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Timothy Cadogan
CEO
Steve Froehlich
Chief Customer Growth Officer
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