Chief Data Infrastructure Architect

2 days ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Canva Full time

About Us

Canva is a leading cloud-based design and media creation platform, empowering millions of users to create professional-looking designs and documents. Our vision is to make a world where anyone can create anything.

Salary: $180,000 - $220,000 per annum

We are looking for an experienced Chief Data Infrastructure Architect to join our team in Sydney. As a key member of our Data Platform Group, you will be responsible for designing and implementing a declarative infrastructure management framework for our data platform on Snowflake and AWS. Your focus will be on enabling self-service data pipeline and analytics development by our data community.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement a declarative infrastructure management framework for Canva's data platform (Snowflake and AWS) to enable self-service data pipeline and analytics development by Canvanauts.
  • Bullet point Build out automated governance for data platform across all data workloads.
  • Up/grade & iterate data access controls framework towards finer grain controls and policy based access controls.
  • Improve development practices through improvement to testing strategies and frameworks.
  • Contribute towards the growth of data platform teams, incl. hiring, onboarding, training of the fellow engineer.
  • Contribute towards up/cross skill training on usage of data platform in Canva's data community.
  • Uplift engineering practices, especially on engineering, architecture and documentation.
  • Engage data community to improve data platform capabilities and tooling.
  • Proactively search and identify opportunities, shape and lead data platform initiatives to achieve material business value.

Requirements:

  • You have five-plus (5-8+) years of commercial experience developing complex applications in Python.
  • Architecture and design experience for modern MPP cloud-based data platform and warehouse, Snowflake and AWS preferred.
  • Implementing data platform infrastructure resource management framework using Infrastructure as Code declaratively (e.g. Terraform).
  • Experience improving testing frameworks and strategies, e.g. unit testing and integration testing.
  • Prior experience building, uplifting data governance capabilities, incl.: managing lineage, classification, treatment, access control, sovereignty, and etc.
  • You have extensive experience in developing clean, readable, and maintainable code; The libraries and tools developed by the team are used by hundreds of developers at Canva so they need to be easily understandable.
  • You are comfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures.

Nice to Have:

  • Prior experience in data processing using Analytical SQL.

What We Offer:

  • Competitive salary range of $180,000 - $220,000 per annum.
  • Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too.
  • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers.
  • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more.
  • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally.

Why Join Us?

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above - we still want to hear from you.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.



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