Platform Architect

Who We Are

TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Cloud company. We are catalyzing the Scientific AI revolution by designing and industrializing AI-native scientific data sets, which we bring to life in a growing suite of next gen lab data management solutions, scientific use cases, and AI-enabled outcomes. 

TetraScience is the category leader in this vital new market, generating more revenue than all other companies in the aggregate. In the last year alone, the world’s dominant players in compute, cloud, data, and AI infrastructure have converged on TetraScience as the de facto standard, entering into co-innovation and go-to-market partnerships:

In connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review the Tetra Way letter, authored directly by Patrick Grady, our co-founder and CEO. This letter is designed to assist you in better understanding whether TetraScience is the right fit for you from a values and ethos perspective. 

It is impossible to overstate the importance of this document and you are encouraged to take it literally and reflect on whether you are aligned with our unique approach to company and team building. If you join us, you will be expected to embody its contents each day. 

Who You Are

You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with fellow engineers, managers, designers, user researchers, executives, customers and inspire them to do their best. You relentlessly strive to excel in your craft. You take pride in your craft and are passionate about continuously improving both what we deliver and how we deliver our products to the customers. You take ownership of all the aspects of software design and architecture deliverables you are working on. You consistently seek understanding and clarity. You look at every interaction as an opportunity to learn. You aren’t afraid to ask questions. You have the humility and confidence to not be the smartest person in the room.

In this critical leadership role you will own the technical strategy and the architecture. You will work closely with product, engineering, and executive leadership team to ensure that product strategy and execution are in concert with the overall architecture plan. This role will lead a small team of architects in forming the architecture decisions and partnering with the engineering team on implementation.

What You Will Do

• Own the platform architecture
• Support and advise product and engineering leadership regarding technical and architectural feasibility, implications, readiness, security and compliance
• Provide key inputs into technology evaluation and technology planning activities
• Drive architecture discussions with partners like Google, Databricks, and Snowflake
• Communicate the architecture to the engineering and product teams, customers, and stakeholders
• Mentor and train other team member on design techniques, systems architecture and coding standards
• Drive innovations that improve the scalability, availability, resiliency, and performances of services and products
• Stay on the cutting edge of emerging technology, forging key relationships with peers
• Provide thought leadership and represent TetraScience at industry and technology conferences

• 10+ years’ experience designing and building highly scalable, data platforms
• Significant experience with AWS, Services-Architecture and web-scale design patterns
• Proven track-record of success developing product strategy within a start-up environment
• Hands on experience in building data platforms
• Experience with ETL, data integration, data pipelines and lake house architectures
• Extremely high learn-and-curious character traits who excels at achievement
• Experience in Databricks, Snowflake, Google, Azure is a plus
• Excellent problem solving, collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability and desire for transparent communication and influence at the executive level
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and bring ideas to the table
• A proven track record of influencing organizational change from an enterprise architecture perspective over a sustained period without steamrolling or frustration
• Experience in life sciences or working for Biopharma companies is a big plus

• 100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• 401K
• Flexible working arrangements - Remote work
• Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD
• A culture of continuous improvement where you can grow your career and get coaching

We are not currently providing visa sponsorship for this position