Data Architect

About SEON:

Are you a technically skilled, hands-on leader who’s passionate about data? Join us at SEON and explore the opportunity to join a world-class research and development organization passionate about creating incredible experiences for our employees and customers through superior data-driven insights. These great experiences ensure that we can continue to execute our mission of making the internet a safer place to do business! 

SEON provides an API-first solution that helps our customers (many of the world’s leading providers of digital experiences for consumer financial services, insurance, online entertainment, etc.) defend their customers against Fraud and Financial Crimes. With over 250 Fraud Fighters across four global offices (Austin, Budapest, London, and Jakarta), our goal remains unwavering: to make the internet safe for businesses and consumers to transact. Our achievements, including a record-breaking Series B funding round and recognition in TechCrunch, have led to recognition as the World’s quickest-growing fraud prevention company. We take pride in our rapid growth and mission to democratize fraud-fighting while empowering the best online businesses. Join us in our journey to make the internet safer for everyone.

What You’ll Do:

You will join SEON’s Architecture team. As a Data Architect at SEON, you will lead data engineering projects across our product development organization and shape our data stack's technical architecture.

• Data Architecture Design: Develop and implement the overall data architecture, ensuring it aligns with the company’s business objectives and technological goals.
• Database Management: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance database systems, including both SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Collaboration: Work closely with engineering and product teams. Design and develop the data model and infrastructure for upcoming strategic projects within the product & engineering team of SEON
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize the performance of data systems to ensure efficiency and reliability.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for data architecture, systems, and processes.
• Technology Evaluation: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, and evaluate their potential impact on the company’s data architecture.
• Innovation: Promote the adoption of emerging and relevant approaches to solving ML and AI problems and empower engineering teams to embrace pragmatic approaches to evaluating multiple solutions.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering and modeling
• 8-10 years of experience taking on progressively more responsibility and increasing complexity in a software engineering team
• Software engineering experience across the entire lifecycle of application development
• Experience with data governance and compliance regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) preferred
• Expert proficiency in SQL

• Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of data engineering, modeling, and business intelligence applications, such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Elasticsearch, SnowFlake, or comparable technologies
• Proficiency in NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Redis, or similar technologies
• Demonstrated experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
• Knowledge of modern DevOps technologies, such as Terraform, ELK stack, Prometheus, etc.
• Technical expertise with the building blocks of a modern data stack, such as Prefect, AWS Glue, Iceberg, MLflow, dbt, Snowflake, and others

• Demonstrated history of managing high-impact machine learning and engineering projects, preferably in a SaaS startup/scaleup environment.
• Experience with distributed system design, system scaling, and performance optimization.
• Practical experience implementing machine learning models & GenAI for predictive business outcomes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple levels, from detailed technical designs with engineering to broad product initiatives with key business stakeholders

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and incentive compensation structure
• Hybrid work model
• Extensive Benefits package (Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, 401k w/ match, etc.)
• Best-in-class tech gear
• Immediate impact on a smart, growing, global team
• Access to continuous development tools & a strong coaching culture
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• Generous vacation & leave policies
• Complimentary weekly language courses
• Weekly in-office lunch delivery budget

What’s Next:

Does that sound good? Great, we can’t wait to hear from you! Would you like to learn more about what it’s like to work at SEON first?
👉 Here you go: https://careers.seon.io/

Diversity Statement:

SEON is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and do not discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or mental disability. Please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process.