Data Architect

Company Description

Assent is the leading solution for supply chain sustainability tailored for the world’s top-tier, sustainability-driven manufacturers. Hidden risks riddle supply chains, many of which weren't built with sustainability in mind. That's where we step in. With insights from experts, Assent is the tool manufacturers trust for comprehensive sustainability.

We are proud to announce that Assent has crossed the US$100M ARR milestone, granting us Centaur Status. This accomplishment, reached just 8 years following our Series A, makes us the first and only Certified B Corporation in North America's SaaS sustainability industry to celebrate this milestone.

Our journey from $5 million to US$100M ARR in just eight years has been marked by significant growth and achievements. With our $350 million US funding led by Vista Equity Partners, we're poised for even greater expansion and are on the lookout for outstanding team members to join our mission.

Hybrid Work Model

At Assent, we proudly embrace a remote-first work model, valuing the flexibility and autonomy it provides our team. We also acknowledge the intangible benefits of occasional in-person workdays. For team members situated within 50 kms/31 miles of our five global offices in Ottawa, Eldoret, Penang, Columbus, and Amsterdam, you can expect to come into the office at least one day a week. Similarly, those near our co-working spaces in Nairobi and Toronto are encouraged to work onsite once a month.

Job Description

The Data Architect plays a critical role in implementing our product strategy as the leader in data system design, management, and assessment of supply chain data. In this key role, you will help solve complex data security and privacy issues, oversee the architecture and strategy of new data projects from analytics to search, and use your exceptional cloud skills to enable a worldwide and highly available SaaS product in a microservices architecture. You’re a strategist and have a passion for aligning technical leaders and developers to drive the design and implementation of a data architecture that solves immediate business challenges, while enabling future innovation and growth.

KEY REQUIREMENTS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization and the rest of the engineering organization to understand business priorities and identify the needs of an evolving, scalable and secure data architecture
• Support creation, articulation and promotion of our data strategy as part of our overall software architecture for the delivery of data-centric SaaS products that are reliable and performant
• Provide leadership to development teams, applying your thorough understanding of business needs as well your deep technical knowledge and experience, to drive design and implementation decisions that align with the overall data architecture vision and facilitate velocity across the teams
• Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation, where difficult data challenges are tackled eagerly with a focus on measurable outcomes
• Demonstrate and promote excellence in practices by documenting architecture design goals, best practices and decisions, as well as existing and new data interfaces, data flows and data models
• Analyze and measure existing system’s design, performance, and/or implementation issues and work on these puzzles to resolve issues
• Ensure departmental security processes and procedures are followed where applicable.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties. Responsibilities may be altered and/or added from time to time to meet business needs.

Qualifications

We strongly value your talent, energy and passion. It will be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree required in computer/software engineering or related technical discipline.
• At least 7 years of experience in senior database design and development roles
• Proven track record of designing data solutions for large, SaaS product solutions in the Cloud
• Excellent communication skills with a keen ability to convey complex ideas and drive deep understanding among various audiences
• Extensive experience in data architecture, including physical and logical database design
• Highly proficient with, and the ability to stay current, on all aspects of designing and developing data management solutions, including; data sharding, master data management, synchronization, replication and change data capture techniques, database batch processing, data modeling (including indexes, partitions), and database performance tuning (SQL Server, Oracle or DB2)
• Knowledge of AWS data technologies for graph, document or time-series data would be an asset
• Strong Agile development experience
• Are a true team player, and see collaboration and feedback as a means to innovate and accelerates greatness

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the aforementioned duties and responsibilities satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
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Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to help.