Principal Solutions Architect

GXO Logistics, Inc.

Principal Solutions Architect at GXO designing scalable cloud-native data platforms for analytics and AI/ML. Contributing to enterprise data architecture strategy and collaborating with global teams.

Posted 6/17/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaPandasPySparkPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to and evolve enterprise data architecture strategy by providing deep technical expertise and aligning architectural decisions to business priorities
Translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native architectures using GCP and Snowflake
Develop and promote adoption of enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, governance models, and best practices across global teams
Design and guide implementation of modern data platforms supporting batch, streaming, analytics, AI/ML, and agentic workflows (LLMs, RAG, orchestration frameworks)
Partner with engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders to inform and influence roadmap priorities and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent related work or military experience
5 years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, and cloud solution design
5 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native data platforms on GCP and/or Snowflake
Deep expertise in GCP services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, IAM, Cloud Storage, monitoring/logging)
Strong Snowflake expertise (Tasks, Streams, Resource Monitors, clustering, performance tuning via Snowsight/Query Profile)
Advanced SQL and strong Python skills (PySpark, Pandas), plus API integration experience
Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures (Kafka and/or Pub/Sub)
Strong data modeling expertise (star/snowflake schemas, domain-driven design) and experience with dbt and data catalog tools (Collibra or Alation)
Experience with Airflow/Cloud Composer DAG development and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub/GitHub Actions
Strong understanding of enterprise data governance and security (GDPR, CCPA, IAM, encryption/KMS, policy tags)

Benefits

Comp & perks

full health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
401(k)
life insurance
disability and more

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringdata architecturecloud solution designGCPSnowflakeSQLPythonevent-driven architecturedata modelingCI/CD

Soft Skills

technical expertisecommunicationcollaborationinfluencealignment