Data Platform Architect

About TaskUs: TaskUs is a provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to fast-growing technology companies helping its clients represent protect and grow their brands. Leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure TaskUs serves clients in the fastest-growing sectors including social media e-commerce gaming streaming media food delivery ride-sharing HiTech FinTech and HealthTech.

The People First culture at TaskUs has enabled the company to expand its workforce to approximately 45000 employees globally. Presently we have a presence in twenty-three locations across twelve countries which include the Philippines India and the United States.

It started with one ridiculously good idea to create a different breed of Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO)! We at TaskUs understand that achieving growth for our partners requires a culture of constant motion exploring new technologies being ready to handle any challenge at a moments notice and mastering consistency in an ever-changing world.

What We Offer: At TaskUs we prioritize our employees well-being by offering competitive industry salaries and comprehensive benefits packages. Our commitment to a People First culture is reflected in the various departments we have established including Total Rewards Wellness HR and Diversity. We take pride in our inclusive environment and positive impact on the community. Moreover we actively encourage internal mobility and professional growth at all stages of an employees career within TaskUs. Join our team today and experience firsthand our dedication to supporting People First.

About TaskUs: TaskUs is a provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to fast-growing technology companies helping its clients represent protect and grow their brands. Leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure TaskUs serves clients in the fastest-growing sectors including social media e-commerce gaming streaming media food delivery ride-sharing HiTech FinTech and HealthTech.

TaskUs People First culture has grown the company to have approximately 65K employees worldwide. We are currently in twenty-three locations across twelve countries including the Philippines India and the United States.

It started with one ridiculously good idea to create a different breed of Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO)! We at TaskUs understand that achieving growth for our partners requires a culture of constant motion exploring new technologies being ready to handle any challenge at a moments notice and mastering consistency in an ever-changing world.

What We Offer: TaskUs provides world-class benefit packages with competitive industry salaries to all its employees. With well-developed departments such as Total Rewards Wellness HR and Diversity we continuously thrive in supporting a People First culture. We are known for our inclusiveness and community impact. We also promote internal mobility and professional development at every step of an employees career within TaskUs. Come be part of TaskUs that supports People First by applying today!

The Mission: The Data Platform Architect is the lead designer and technical authority for our modern data ecosystem. Architect is responsible for ensuring the platform provides a high-performance cost-effective and secure foundation that evolves alongside business needs. This is a design-and-direction role where you set the standards review engineering output and serve as the primary bridge between complex technical systems and business value.

What the Architect will own:

• Platform Design & Research:Lead architectural decisions regarding compute engine selection open-table format implementation and tiered storage design.

• Agnostic Infrastructure:Architect a decoupled data environment that ensures interoperability across multiple engines and prevents proprietary vendor lock-in.

• Governance & Compliance:Design and oversee the implementation of automated data governance including PII discovery row/column-level security and auditability.

• Standards & Frameworks:Define the Definition of Done for data pipelines establishing coding standards CI/CD patterns and technical documentation requirements.

• Architectural Decision Records (ADR):Maintain a version-controlled repository of all consequential technical decisions documenting the rationale trade-offs and long-term implications.

• Performance & FinOps:Monitor and optimize platform performance and spend ensuring sub-second query speeds for massive user bases while maintaining a lean cloud footprint.

• Technical Stewardship:Conduct deep-dive code and design reviews for all data models and orchestration workflows; mentor and unblock senior engineering staff.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• 8 Years in Data Engineering / Architecture:Proven experience delivering production-grade Lakehouse environments for high-concurrency (1000 user) organizations.

• Modern Data Stack Fluency:Extensive experience withDatabricks(Lakehouse/Unity Catalog) and high-performance warehouses likeAmazon Redshiftor Snowflake.

• Open-Table Formats:Deep hands-on expertise withApache Icebergor Delta Lake including optimization strategies for partitioning and schema evolution.

• Transformation & Modeling:Mastery ofdbt (Core)for complex SQL-based modeling andPySparkorPythonfor sophisticated data processing.

• High-Efficiency Compute:Familiarity with vectorized/embedded engines likeDuckDBfor specialized or cost-sensitive processing tasks.

• Orchestration Mastery:Advanced experience withApache Airflow specifically in designing resilient dependency-aware DAGs in resource-constrained environments.

• Cloud Ecosystems:Expert-level knowledge of AWS (S3 EC2 IAM) or equivalent services in Azure/GCP with a focus on storage-compute separation.

• Experience with open-source catalog implementations likeApache Polaris.

• Knowledge ofData Opsprinciples and automated data quality testing frameworks.

• Experience translating technical debt and architectural roadmaps for C-level executives.

• Background in managing fixed-resource infrastructure (e.g. EC2/VM-based processing) vs. elastic serverless models.

• Kubernetes (K8s). Deep understanding of Pods Deployments Services ConfigMaps and Secrets management.

How We Partner To Protect You: TaskUs will neither solicit money from you during your application process nor require any form of payment in order to proceed with your application. Kindly ensure that you are always in communication with only authorized recruiters of TaskUs.

DEI: In TaskUs we believe that innovation and higher performance are brought by people from all walks of life. We welcome applicants of different backgrounds demographics and circumstances. Inclusive and equitable practices are our responsibility as a business. TaskUs is committed to providing equal access to opportunities. If you need reasonable accommodations in any part of the hiring process please let us know.

How We Partner To Protect You: TaskUs will neither solicit money from you during your application process nor require any form of payment in order to proceed with your application. Kindly ensure that you are always in communication with only authorized recruiters of TaskUs.

DEI: In TaskUs we believe that innovation and higher performance are brought by people from all walks of life. We welcome applicants of different backgrounds demographics and circumstances. Inclusive and equitable practices are our responsibility as a business. TaskUs is committed to providing equal access to opportunities. If you need reasonable accommodations in any part of the hiring process please let us know.

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