Senior Solutions Architect, Aura
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
$160-225k
Digital security company
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Digital security company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-225k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create a safer internet by making comprehensive digital security simple to understand and easy to use.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or Machine Learning. A Ph.D. is a plus
- 8+ years of progressive experience in software and data architecture, with at least 5+ years specifically focused on designing and implementing large-scale data platforms that support the deployment of Data, Data Science and ML solutions
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering production-grade machine learning models and data pipelines, ideally within a cloud-native environment
- Cloud Platforms: Deep expertise in one or more major cloud providers (AWS strongly preferred) and their respective data/AI services (e.g., AWS S3, Redshift, Databricks and MLFlow)
- Data Technologies: Strong proficiency in data warehousing, data lakes (e.g., Delta Lake), streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis), ETL/ELT processes, and robust data modeling for analytical and ML applications
- Programming: Highly proficient in Python and Spark
- Databases: Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Big Data Frameworks: Experience with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Ray) is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Solutions Architect for Data Science & AI at Aura, you will be critical in designing and implementing solutions that directly contribute to our mission of online safety
- You will bridge the gap between complex business challenges in digital security, data, and cutting-edge data science and machine learning capabilities
- This role demands a deep understanding of data architecture, machine learning principles, and cloud computing, coupled with the ability to guide cross-functional teams (data scientists, data engineers, product managers) in delivering impactful and privacy-preserving AI products, data, and features
- You will play a key role in shaping Aura's data and AI strategy, ensuring our solutions are innovative, scalable, stable, secure, and deliver tangible value to our customers
- AI/ML Solution Design & Architecture:
- Lead the architectural design and technical roadmap for complex data science and AI initiatives, focusing on areas like threat detection, fraud prevention, behavioral analytics, content moderation, and personalized safety recommendations
- Translate business requirements and data science model specifications into robust, scalable, and secure technical architectures for data ingestion, processing, storage, model training, inference, and MLOps
- Evaluate and select appropriate AI/ML frameworks, tools, cloud services (e.g. , AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, Google AI Platform), and data technologies to build optimal solutions
- Design and optimize data pipelines for machine learning, ensuring data quality, governance, and efficient feature engineering for our security products
- Technical Leadership & Guidance:
- Provide expert technical leadership and mentorship to data scientists, data engineers, and ML engineers, fostering best practices in architectural design, code quality, scalability, and security
- Champion MLOps practices, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) for ML models, automated model monitoring, versioning, and retraining strategies to ensure model reliability and performance in production
- Drive technical discussions and decisions for Aura's data and AI platforms, ensuring alignment with overall technology strategy
- Collaborate closely with product management and engineering teams to ensure AI solutions are integrated seamlessly into Aura's product suite
- Innovation & Proof-of-Concept:
- Architect and oversee the development of prototypes and proof-of-concepts (POCs) for novel AI applications in online safety, demonstrating feasibility and business value
- Stay at the forefront of emerging AI/ML technologies (e.g. , Generative AI, Large Language Models, advanced anomaly detection) and research, assessing their potential application within Aura's product ecosystem
- Actively contribute to Aura's long-term data and AI strategy, identifying new opportunities to leverage AI for enhanced customer protection
- Security, Privacy & Responsible AI:
- Design data and AI solutions with an unwavering focus on data security, privacy, and compliance with relevant regulations (e.g. , GDPR, CCPA)
- Embed principles of Responsible AI, including fairness, transparency, explainability, and bias mitigation, into all architectural designs, given the sensitive nature of online safety
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication:
- Effectively communicate complex technical architectures, trade-offs, and roadmaps to diverse audiences, including senior leadership, product teams, engineering teams, and potentially external partners
- Foster a collaborative environment aligned with Aura's "One Team" value, facilitating knowledge sharing and consensus-building across technical
Our take
Aura provides digital security solutions at both individual and enterprise level. An amalgamation of five businesses (including Intersections Inc, an identity theft solutions provider established in 1996) Aura brings together decades of experience in the security space.
Aura offers a range of plans to help businesses and consumers keep their data safe, with protection from identity theft, online financial theft and protection of technology and devices. It's a competitive space, with rivals including IDShield and IdentityForce. However Aura's combined experience in the field and the constantly increasing online security threats (for instance, catfishing - a scam where the perpetrator adopts a fictional persona to obtain personal information , financial gain or to lure someone into a relationship has doubled in frequency in the last 5 years) means there has proved to be plenty of room for the company to carve out space for itself in the market.
Aura's acquisition of the Pango Group in 2020 has proved to be profitable for the company, giving it access to more digital security verticals and helping to generate 35% year on year growth. It is continuing to scale the business, hiring more talent to make this a possibility.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2025
$140m
SERIES G
Jun 2023
$22m
ANGEL
Total funding: $662.7m
Company benefits
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Vision and dental insurance
- 401k plan
- Volunteer time off
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Burlington, MA
Leadership
Hari Ravichandran
(CEO & Founder)Hari founded Endurance International Group in 1997, where they worked as CEO until 2017. Having undertaken an MBA at the Wharton School, they founded Auru in August 2017, and then Jump Ventures in June 2018.
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