Data Architect

Join CellPoint Digital: Shape the Future of Payments with Us!

At CellPoint Digital, we're revolutionizing the way businesses in the air, travel, and hospitality sectors manage their payments. 

With our Leading Payment Orchestration Platform, we're turning payments into a strategic advantage, helping clients optimize their payment experience to boost profits, maximize approvals, lower costs and take control of their payment, resulting in more money to the bottom line.

We believe payments should be a strategic asset, delivering financial, customer, and operational value. Our vision is to unify the payment ecosystem, opening up a world of opportunities for leading brands in the air, travel, and hospitality industries. We transform the payment supply chain from a cost center into a profit engine, turning every transaction into an opportunity for growth and competitive advantage.

At our core, we're innovators and problem-solvers united by five key values: Mission First, Ownership, Trust & Transparency, Driven, and One Team. We're ambitious professionals who embrace accountability and transform payments together.

Our diverse community spans the globe, with hubs in Copenhagen, Dallas, Dubai, London, Miami, Pune, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Mexico, and Singapore, along with remote team members worldwide. We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences that make our team extraordinary.

Join us as a Data Architect (Team Lead) on our mission to turn payments into possibilities!

Data Architect (Team Lead)

You will lead the design and operation of our payments data platform, while managing and developing a team of data engineers and analytics engineers.

This role owns both the technical architecture and the definition of truth across the organization—ensuring that data is reliable, consistent, and aligned to how the business makes decisions.

You are the final authority on data definitions, system design, and data quality standards.

We are a high-velocity team. You are expected to leverage AI tools to accelerate development, analysis, and problem-solving.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Define and evolve the data platform architecture

  • Design scalable, resilient systems for ingesting, processing, and serving payments data

  • Establish patterns and standards across pipelines, storage, and access layers

• Create alignment on metrics across the organization

  • Standardize KPI definitions across product, engineering, operations, and leadership

  • Eliminate conflicting interpretations and ensure consistent decision-making

• Act as the final arbiter of data definitions

  • Own and resolve disagreements around metrics, schemas, and data meaning

  • Ensure the organization operates from a single, trusted source of truth

• Lead and develop a high-performing data team

  • Manage, mentor, and grow data engineers and analytics engineers

  • Set expectations for quality, ownership, and execution

  • Drive accountability and elevate team performance

• Ensure platform reliability and data integrity at scale

  • Establish standards for data quality, testing, and observability

  • Oversee systems that guarantee consistency, traceability, and correctness

• Increase organizational velocity through better data systems

  • Remove bottlenecks in how data is produced and consumed

  • Leverage AI tools like OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and Claude to accelerate both individual and team output

  • Set the standard for how AI is used across the data organization

Skills you will have fine-tuned:

• Technical leadership and architectural decision-making

  • Designing end-to-end data platforms that scale with business growth

  • Balancing tradeoffs across performance, cost, and maintainability

• Organizational data alignment

  • Driving consensus across teams with competing priorities

  • Defining metrics that hold up under scrutiny and edge cases

• Data governance and definition ownership

  • Establishing clear ownership of metrics, schemas, and contracts

  • Resolving ambiguity and enforcing consistency across the organization

• People leadership and team development

  • Coaching engineers at different levels of seniority

  • Building a culture of accountability, ownership, and high standards

• Operating reliable data systems at scale

  • Setting standards for data quality, observability, and system health

  • Leading incident response and continuous improvement efforts

• AI-enabled team acceleration

  • Scaling the use of AI tools across a team, not just individually

  • Identifying where AI meaningfully improves speed, quality, and leverage

  • Building workflows that combine human judgment with AI efficiency

• You appreciate working with managed services and serverless architecture

• You naturally pay attention to detail

• You are eager to bring your unique talents and authenticity to the CellPoint Digital community

• You're constantly curious and a lifelong learner

• You approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset

What's in it for you:

• We offer you the opportunity to be an innovator, challenge the status quo, and redefine the payments category

• Competitive salary in a fast-growing start-up

• Medical insurance with coverage for dependents (parents, spouse, children)

• Rewards & Recognition system

• Opportunity for personal and professional growth in a dynamic industry 

What makes CellPoint Digital a leader in the payment landscape isn't just our technology - it's our people and how we work together. We've built a global community where diverse talents and perspectives unite to create innovative solutions. 

When you join us, you become part of something bigger: a collaborative culture that crosses borders and disciplines, bringing out the best in every team member to deliver breakthrough results for our clients and partners.  

Together, we are transforming the payments industry - challenging, supporting, and inspiring one another in the process.

Please note, we retain applicant data for 12 months for recruitment purposes and future opportunities, after which it is securely deleted. At CellPoint Digital we are committed to be globally compliant with robust data protection.