Staff Data Systems Architect

At MyFitnessPal, we believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide tools, resources and support to enable users to reach their health goals. We are looking for a Staff Data Systems Architect to join the MyFitnessPal Data Engineering team. Our users rely on MyFitnessPal to power their health and fitness journeys every day. As a member of our MyFitnessPal Engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact those users with your expertise in the backend systems that drive the MyFitnessPal ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments. About the team: MyFitnessPal encourages innovation and adoption of the latest technologies available to deliver an amazing experience for our members. Our diverse team of brilliant technologists builds and maintains native mobile applications, a web application, the world’s largest nutrition database, constantly evolving data science and AI/ML assets, the backend infrastructure and data platform required to support these applications and databases, as well as the business systems and data required to manage an awesome company. Technologies and languages we work with include: Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, Git Hub, PlanetScale, Elasticsearch, Scala, Python, SQL, Amplitude, Appsflyer, Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker, Okta and Claude Code. We care more about your general engineering skills and technical leadership than your knowledge of a specific language and or framework. What you’ll be doing: Own the end-to-end systems design of the MyFitnessPal product data stack Develop, drive, and maintain the systems architecture roadmap for the product data stack Serve as the primary point of contact in Data Platform for the consolidated data stack, coordinating contributions from Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Product Analytics, and backend engineering teams Define and enforce data movement and standardization discipline across the stack Lead architecture review of new tool decisions, vetting vendors against the existing stack, surfacing duplication, and collaborating on proof-of-value evaluations Contribute to the compliance architecture for user data, including PII tagging and a deletion/DSR policy by which every tool receiving user data is governed Administer access and licensing across the data stack, maintaining a single view of spend and access Document and evangelize architecture decisions, standards, and ownership models across the organization Qualifications to be successful in this role: 8