Enterprise Application Data Architect, GTM Systems

About the Team

The Growth and Support Services team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems data foundations and operational processes that support our go-to-market and customer-facing teams.

The team partners closely with Revenue Operations Business Systems Data Engineering Analytics Sales Marketing Customer Success Support Security and other cross-functional stakeholders. Our work helps ensure that customer and prospect data is accurate consistent secure and actionable across the full customer lifecycle.

About the Role

As a Data Architect you will define and improve the data architecture supporting our go-to-market systems and enterprise CRM environment.

You will lead efforts to improve Salesforce and internal data from initial lead acquisition and enrichment through sales onboarding customer success and support. You will design scalable data models establish system-of-record definitions improve integrations and lead data-quality and governance initiatives across customer account contact lead opportunity and support data.

Were looking for people who combine strong technical expertise in enterprise data architecture with hands-on experience improving complex CRM environments. You should be comfortable working across architecture data modeling integration design governance and implementation.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Define the target architecture for customer account contact lead opportunity activity campaign and support data.

• Assess and improve Salesforce data across the lead-to-support lifecycle.

• Design canonical data models entity relationships identity-resolution rules and system-of-record definitions.

• Lead data-cleansing and remediation initiatives including deduplication normalization enrichment validation and historical cleanup.

• Establish matching merging and survivorship rules for people companies accounts and related records.

• Architect integrations between Salesforce data warehouses operational systems support platforms and third-party data providers.

• Define standards for field definitions lifecycle stages ownership metadata lineage retention and access controls.

• Implement automated monitoring for data quality completeness freshness consistency and integration failures.

• Improve the flow of data between marketing sales customer success and support systems.

• Evaluate third-party data sources and define how external data should be matched validated and incorporated into enterprise systems.

• Partner with Business Systems Revenue Operations Data Engineering Analytics Security and business stakeholders to translate operational requirements into durable technical solutions.

• Produce architecture diagrams data dictionaries integration specifications governance documentation and implementation guidance.

• Provide technical leadership and guide teams through complex data architecture and system-design decisions.

• Support and improve integrations involving Salesforce and go-to-market data platforms such as Clay PitchBook ZoomInfo HG Insights Cognism Harmonic and Meticulate.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep expertise in enterprise data architecture data management data engineering or a related technical discipline.

• Have strong hands-on experience with Salesforce data architecture including leads contacts accounts opportunities activities campaigns and support-related objects.

• Have successfully cleaned restructured or migrated large and complex enterprise CRM datasets.

• Understand master data management identity resolution entity matching deduplication metadata management data lineage and data governance.

• Have experience designing batch API-based event-driven and reverse-ETL integrations.

• Have advanced SQL skills.

• Understand relational databases cloud data warehouses APIs data pipelines integration platforms and distributed data systems.

• Have experience defining data-quality rules observability controls reconciliation processes and measurable service-level expectations.

• Can translate business processes and operational requirements into scalable technical models and architecture.

• Have experience with Salesforce and several of the following platforms: Clay PitchBook ZoomInfo HG Insights Cognism Harmonic and Meticulate.

• Have comparable experience with sales intelligence enrichment company-data prospecting or go-to-market automation platforms.

• Have experience integrating CRM data with cloud data warehouses and business intelligence environments.

• Are familiar with data contracts schema versioning change-data capture and event-driven architecture.

• Have experience managing sensitive customer and prospect data in accordance with privacy security and retention requirements.

• Communicate complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Have led cross-functional data modernization CRM transformation or enterprise data-governance programs.

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