
Technical Lead – Principal
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Oakland • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and drive the architecture strategy across multiple data products and platforms, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and future state roadmaps.
- Provide technical feasibility assessments for complex, cross functional features, and guide teams with deep platform and domain expertise.
- Lead solution design for large cloud native data products, including data acquisition, storage, lineage, modeling, and platform integration patterns.
- Establish and evolve architectural patterns, nonfunctional requirements, and tech-debt strategies across product portfolios.
- Drive adoption of new technologies and champion enterprise-scale modernization efforts.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership to engineering teams, modeling best-in-class engineering practices.
- Oversee large-scale implementations, prototypes, and POCs - ensuring they are scalable, secure, and enterprise ready.
- Optimize complex system performance, troubleshoot advanced platform issues, and guide incident resolution strategies.
- Partner with security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to design and deliver highly reliable and compliant solutions.
- Influence senior leaders across IT and Lines of Business, shaping long-term technology direction and investment.
- Communicate architectural vision to executives, technical staff, and business partners in clear, compelling terms.
- Mentor and develop architects, senior engineers, and technical leads - elevating the overall technical maturity of the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field of study, or equivalent experience
- 7 years of related work experience
- 5 + years of Technical Lead or Architecture experience delivering enterprise-scale systems in an Agile environment.
- Extensive experience designing and delivering solution architectures for complex data platforms and cloud-native systems (AWS preferred).
- Proven track record leading architecture for multi-team or portfolio level technology initiatives.
- Broad technical background across cloud architecture, data engineering & data management, security & compliance, microservices & API design, ERP integration (e.g., SAP), and enterprise systems & infrastructure.
- Experience providing direction to multiple architects and technical leads, not just engineering teams.
- Experience in scaled agile product development environments with a strong understanding of scaled agile delivery principles.
- Strong communication, executive-level influence, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to build trust quickly and foster high-performing engineering culture.
Benefits
- Health Care
- Retirement Plans
- Top Industry Wages
- Paid Time Off & Sign-on Bonus
- Relocation Services
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
architecture strategycloud native data productsdata acquisitiondata storagedata modelingplatform integrationtechnical leadershipsystem performance optimizationincident resolutionAgile methodology
Soft Skills
communicationexecutive influencestakeholder managementmentoringtrust buildingteam leadershiptechnical maturity developmentcollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinking