About the job
Location: Bucharest (hybrid schedule: 2 days per week onsite)
Role Overview
Showpad is seeking a Data Architect to help shape the future of our analytics and reporting platform. This platform powers embedded analytics used by thousands of customers every day. The Data Architect will design foundational systems that support scalable, resilient data solutions, enabling clients to make informed decisions about revenue effectiveness.
This role centers on building out our Medallion architecture, star schemas, and strong data governance frameworks. The goal: create a platform that is reliable and user-friendly, so teams can build high-quality models quickly and independently.
Main Responsibilities
- Architectural Stewardship: Collaborate on the vision for our data lake, entity-relationship models, and data catalog (Glue/Lake Formation). Serve as the Data Architect for Medallion architecture and star schemas.
- Embedded Analytics Leadership: Address the unique needs of customer-facing data, including data isolation for multi-tenant environments, sub-second query latency, and meeting SLAs for white-labeled analytics.
- Team Enablement: Provide tools, standards, and mentorship to cross-functional teams, supporting the creation of high-quality downstream data models.
- Data Governance & Quality: Define data contracts, schema evolution, and lineage practices to ensure data remains a trusted source of truth.
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to turn complex business requirements into actionable, cost-effective technical roadmaps.
- System Evolution: Lead the adoption of modern table formats (Apache Iceberg) and high-performance analytics engines (Clickhouse/OpenSearch).
Technology Stack
Showpad’s data platform is built on AWS, with a focus on performance and cost efficiency. Key tools include:
- Orchestration & Transformation: dbt, Glue Jobs, AWS ECS Fargate

