[Hiring] Director of Data Architect @ABC Financial Services

Role Description

Join ABC Fitness and become part of a culture that’s as ambitious as it is authentic. Let’s transform the future of fitness—together!

What You’ll Do

• Define and communicate ABC’s data architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards.
• Lead the architectural evolution from batch and latency-driven processing toward real-time data.
• Partner with executive, product, and engineering leaders to connect data architecture decisions to business and customer outcomes.
• Identify practical opportunities to use AI to improve engineering productivity, data generation, quality, and decision-making.
• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of four to five senior data architects.
• Establish consistent design review practices across the Data and Reporting organization.
• Guide architecture decisions related to data quality, governance, security, compliance, scalability, and reliability.
• Partner with Product leaders early in the planning process to shape data and reporting capabilities.
• Explain complex technical strategies clearly to both executive and technical audiences.
• Build alignment across teams and influence decisions beyond your direct reporting relationships.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or a related discipline, including experience leading senior technical professionals.
• Demonstrated experience moving data platforms from batch processing toward real-time or near-real-time architectures.
• Deep experience with modern cloud data platforms and lakehouse architecture.
• Experience with AWS, Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog is highly valued.
• Strong foundations in data modeling, data warehousing, data governance, and distributed data systems.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Python sufficient to review designs and engage credibly with engineers.
• Practical experience using AI in your own work, along with sound judgment about where AI creates meaningful value.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to make technical strategy clear to executive leaders and design decisions clear to engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to influence product and engineering partners without relying solely on formal authority.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Experience in fitness, wellness, SaaS, payments, or another subscription-based business.
• Experience building customer-facing analytics or reporting products.
• Experience with Databricks SQL, Power BI, or comparable analytics platforms.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Benefits

• Purpose led company with a Values focused culture – Best Life, One Team, Growth Mindset.
• Time Off – with our open PTO policy, we offer flexibility in how and when you take PTO!
• Days of Disconnect – once a quarter, we take a collective breather and enjoy a day off together around the globe. #oneteam.
• Parental & Pawternity Leave – we offer leave for when your family grows by two feet or four paws!
• Best Life Perk – we are committed to meeting you wherever you are in your fitness journey with a quarterly reimbursement.
• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.
• EAP – we get you help when you need it. Period.
• Premium Calm App – enjoy tranquility with a Calm App subscription for you and up to 4 dependents over the age of 16.
• And more! – so many benefits we couldn’t even fit them all here!

Company Description

ABC Fitness is the #1 software provider for fitness businesses of any size, all around the world. Supporting 30K clubs, 650K coaches, 40M members, and processing more than $12B in payments every year, ABC Fitness provides scalable, data-driven solutions to simplify club management and engage members and clients.

From personal trainers, boutique studios, and gyms, to international franchise health clubs, ABC Fitness will move your business forward through technology and industry insights. Innovation is at the center of everything we do, across ABC Glofox, ABC Ignite, ABC Trainerize, and ABC Evo. Let's make your fitness vision a seamless reality, together.