Data Architecture & Modeling Lead

At Deckers Brands, Together, Every Step is a promise kept that every employee can bring their authentic self, is valued and supported, as a whole person, at work and beyond. Together, Every Step is how we continue to deliver exceptional business results, experience an amazing place to work, and have a positive impact on the communities and world around us. 

Job Title: Data Architecture & Modeling Lead

Reports to: Director, Data Architecture

Location: United States (Remote)

Interested applicants must reside in one of the following approved states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington. 

The Role

As the Data Architecture Modeling Lead, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of data models and architecture solutions that support our business objectives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity, optimize data flow, and enhance data management practices. This role is pivotal in converting complex business requirements into scalable conceptual, logical, and physical data assets on AWS-native platforms.

We celebrate diversity--of your background, your experiences and your unique identity. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all of our employees can Come as They Are. We believe that when we bring our different perspectives to work, we are truly Better Together.

Your Impact

• Strategic Vision: Translate the enterprise modeling vision into actionable domain-level roadmaps and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Solution Influence: Influence solution designs to adopt governed, domain-oriented data products and canonical definitions, driving consistency and quality.
• Product Advisory: Advise product owners on modeling implications of new features and digital-transformation initiatives, ensuring seamless integration.
• End-to-End Development: Own the end-to-end development of conceptual, logical, and physical models for assigned domains, ensuring they meet business needs.
• Design Patterns: Create design patterns that support batch, near-real-time, and event-driven data flows, optimizing performance and scalability.
• Data Consistency: Ensure lineage, naming standards, and semantic consistency across tables, views, and streaming topics, maintaining data integrity.
• Physical Implementation: Convert models into physical DDL on Redshift, Iceberg, or other AWS-based storage technologies, validating performance and cost efficiency.
• Documentation: Document models in the central repository and keep metadata continuously current, ensuring accessibility and usability.
• Technological Expertise: Stay current on trends in knowledge graphs, semantic layers, and AI-driven metadata enrichment, driving innovation.
• Governance: Embed data-quality, privacy, and security controls into model design, partnering with governance teams to enforce standards.
• Mentorship: Mentor and review work for junior modelers and data engineers, fostering best practices and skill growth.
• Collaboration: Facilitate workshops with business analysts, product managers, and engineering teams to refine requirements and iterate rapidly on prototypes.
• Leadership: Provide authoritative guidance on modeling impacts during sprint planning, code reviews, and architecture boards, championing a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.

Who You Are

• Educational Background: You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. An advanced degree or industry certification is a plus, showcasing your commitment to continuous learning and professional growth.
• Proven Experience: With 7–10 years of experience in data modeling or data-architecture roles within cloud-native environments, you have a track record of designing production models that support BI, ML, or operational workloads at scale. Experience in retail, consumer-products, or e-commerce industries is a bonus.
• Technical Expertise: You possess deep practical knowledge of entity-relationship modeling, dimensional design, and schema-on-read techniques. Your strong SQL development skills and familiarity with performance-tuning for MPP databases set you apart.
• Problem Solver: You excel at distilling ambiguity into clear, well-structured data solutions that balance flexibility with governance. Your analytical skills enable you to tackle complex challenges and deliver impactful results.
• Effective Communicator: Your excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management abilities allow you to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. You can translate technical concepts into actionable insights for diverse teams.
• Leadership and Mentorship: As a self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, distributed, and matrixed teams, you deliver high-quality results with minimal oversight. You mentor junior modelers and data engineers, fostering best practices and skill growth.
• Innovative Thinker: You stay current on industry trends and best practices in data architecture, driving innovation and continuous improvement within the data-platform community. Your forward-thinking approach ensures Deckers Brands remains at the forefront of technological advancements.

What We'll Give You –

• Competitive Pay and Bonuses - We’ve created a variety of competitive compensation programs to foster career development, reward success and to show our employees just how much they’re valued.
• Financial Planning and wellbeing - No matter what financial goals our employees have set, we want to help them get there. Our plans provide powerful ways to protect income, pay for expenses and invest in the future.
• Time away from work - Sometimes we need time away to be with family, focus on our health or just simply recharge. Our plans support our employees’ needs to get out, get healthy and come back stronger than ever.
• Extras, discounts and perks - Being a valued member of the Deckers Brands team means more than just a paycheck. From generous discounts to community-based programs, we offer a variety of cool extras
• Growth and Development - Deckers Brands was built on the idea of pursuing passion. That’s why we offer extensive opportunities and support for personal and professional development.
• Health and Wellness - There’s nothing basic about our comprehensive health and wellness programs and offerings. While at work and at play, we aim to support a healthy lifestyle.
   

$150,000 - $165,000

The salary range posted reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this role in Goleta, CA. Individual pay will be determined by location and additional factors, including job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Diversity and inclusion are key to our success. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds who share a passion for our brands. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition and all the other beautiful parts of your identity.