Data Architect

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

About the Role

You will work closely with other departments, including Product, Engineering, Machine Learning and Analytics, to understand and cater to their data needs. You will also define and document data workflows and data pipelines, and transformation processes for clear understanding and knowledge sharing. Kiddom is a fast growing startup with varied data needs across the organization, you will have an opportunity to help define and chart the direction for how Kiddom’s data is organized and shared.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain the organization’s data architecture, ensuring it meets business requirements and technical standards.
• Develop data models, database structures, and data flows to support business intelligence, analytics, and other data-driven applications.
• Establish data governance policies and best practices to ensure data quality, consistency, and security.
• Evaluate and select appropriate database technologies, tools, and platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud.
• Monitor data systems and troubleshoot issues related to data quality, performance, and integrity.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience as a Data Architect or in a similar role with strong data modeling, architecture, and design skills.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data security, and compliance regulations.
• Experience with MySQL, Snowflake, Cassandra and familiarity with Graph databases. (Neptune or Neo4J)
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, (Golang)
• Familiar with AWS offerings such as AWS Glue, EKS and Lambda

Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits:

-Competitive salary

-Meaningful equity

-Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

-10 paid sick days per year

-Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

-Paid family leave for eligible employees

COVID Vaccination Policy

Kiddom policy requires employees to be vaccinated before they visit an office or attend company events..

We have remote roles but in certain positions where office attendance is deemed to be essential to the role, offers of employment shall be conditional upon proof of vaccination.