Principal Data Platform Architect
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- design, evolve, and govern our enterprise data platform on AWS
- lead architecture across ingestion, storage, governance, transformation, semantics, and consumption layers
- work closely with engineering, data science, analytics, security, and business stakeholders
- deliver a resilient, secure, and cost-effective platform that accelerates data value across the company
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 10+ years in data engineering/architecture, with 5+ years architecting on AWS
- Proven track record delivering secure, governed, and highly available data platforms
- Experience leading platform migrations or net-new builds using lakehouse approaches
- Hands-on involvement with EMR Serverless, Redshift, Lake Formation, DataZone, MWAA orchestration
- AWS Expertise (S3, IAM, KMS, Glue, Lake Formation, DataZone, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, Step Functions, MWAA, CloudWatch, EventBridge, CloudTrail, VPC, PrivateLink, Gateway/Interface endpoints)
- Data Architecture: Lakehouse patterns, medallion architecture, Parquet/Iceberg, distributed processing (Spark)
- Security & Compliance: Row/column-level security, encryption, HIPAA handling
- Data Modeling & Performance: Dimensional modeling, semantic modeling, SQL tuning, partitioning
- Orchestration & CI/CD: Airflow DAG design, Step Functions, Terraform/CDK, GitOps
- Observability & Data Quality: Metrics, lineage, validation frameworks
- Communication & Leadership: Clear technical writing and stakeholder engagement
- Architectural Thinking: Systems design and trade-off analysis with pragmatic standards
- Stakeholder Leadership: Influences cross-functional teams, translates business needs into platform capabilities
- Execution Excellence: Drives from blueprint to production; de-risks complexity with automation and guardrails
- Security-First Mindset: Embeds controls in design
- Operational Discipline: Emphasizes reliability and cost efficiency
- Continuous Improvement: Measures outcomes and iterates, fostering a learning culture
Benefits
- generous HSA company contribution
- healthcare benefits
- vision benefits
- dental benefits
- 401k match program
- unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays
- reimbursement for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs
- education reimbursement
- Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads
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Hard skills
data engineeringdata architecturelakehouse approachesdimensional modelingsemantic modelingSQL tuningdistributed processingorchestrationCI/CDsecurity compliance
Soft skills
clear technical writingstakeholder engagementarchitectural thinkinginfluencing cross-functional teamsexecution excellencesecurity-first mindsetoperational disciplinecontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information Systems