Principal Software Architect, Data, AI, ML
Restaurant365
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $190,000 - $285,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AzureCloudDistributed SystemsETLSQL
About the role
- Define and enable data architecture and engineering standards across Product Lines, ensuring consistent patterns for modeling, storage, access, governance, and responsible AI/ML usage.
- Lead data-focused architecture reviews and technical governance for new products, platform initiatives, and AI/ML solutions, with particular emphasis on scalable, secure use of Snowflake and related cloud data services.
- Own the reference architectures for enterprise data platforms, including Snowflake-based warehouses/lakehouses, streaming/real-time data, semantic models, and analytics/BI consumption patterns used across product teams.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to design data platforms that support analytics, reporting, operational workloads, and AI/ML use cases, ensuring clear data contracts and safe pathways for AI feature development.
- Drive modernization of legacy schemas, ETL/ELT pipelines, and reporting stacks into scalable, cloud-native data and AI platforms with clear service and data domain boundaries, leveraging Snowflake and modern orchestration tooling where appropriate.
- Define and promote patterns for data contracts, event-driven architecture, and CDC/streaming feeds that enable reliable, low-latency data sharing across systems and make high-quality data continuously available for AI/ML workloads.
- Establish standards and best practices for data quality, lineage, observability, cataloging, and governance (including privacy, security, and compliance requirements) so AI/ML features are built on trustworthy, well-understood datasets.
- Partner with AI and engineering teams to design data and feature platforms that power modern AI workloads (e.g., feature stores, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and model-serving integrations), including how these are realized on Snowflake and adjacent services.
- Anticipate long-term risks in data growth, performance, reliability, and cost (including Snowflake usage and storage/compute patterns), and design solutions that prevent systemic issues across products and environments.
- Mentor architects, principal engineers, and data engineers across teams, raising organizational maturity in data and AI architecture and accelerating adoption of shared patterns for Snowflake, data contracts, and AI/ML enablement.
- Operate as a trusted technical advisor to executives and senior leaders, translating data and AI architecture decisions into clear business value, risk tradeoffs, and roadmap implications.
- Represent the company in data and AI technical communities, helping position Restaurant365 as a leading data-driven and AI-enabled SaaS platform.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- 14+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering large-scale data platforms and distributed systems.
- Proven leadership in data and/or analytics architecture, engineering standards, and cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, and infrastructure teams.
- Recognized expertise in multiple data domains, such as data warehousing/lakehousing, data modeling, streaming/event-based architectures, and analytics/BI enablement.
- Deep experience with modern data platform technologies, including hands-on architectural experience with Snowflake (or a closely comparable cloud data warehouse) as well as SQL Server/Azure SQL, cloud storage, streaming platforms, and ETL/ELT tooling.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML data needs, including feature engineering, model training/serving data flows, vector stores, and observability for data-driven and AI-powered products; experience designing data architectures that reliably feed ML platforms, feature stores, or model-serving layers.
- Demonstrated success leading modernization and decomposition efforts (e.g., monolithic reporting stacks to domain-aligned, Snowflake-centric cloud-native data platforms; batch pipelines to streaming/event-driven patterns).
- Mastery of system and data design, including tradeoff analysis for scalability, reliability, performance, cost (including Snowflake cost optimization), and regulatory requirements.
- Track record of influencing company-wide technical strategy through data and AI architecture decisions, with measurable impact on product velocity and quality.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, capable of explaining complex data and AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives.
- Strong coaching and mentorship skills, with experience developing senior engineers and architects in data and AI domains.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical benefits, 100% paid for employee
- 401k + matching
- Equity Option Grant
- Unlimited PTO + Company holidays
- Wellness initiatives
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data architecturedata engineeringdata modelingETLELTdata warehousingdata lakehouseAI/ML architectureSQLstreaming architecture
Soft skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationcommunicationmentorshipstorytellinginfluencing strategycoachingtechnical advisoryorganizational maturityrisk management
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science