Ventura Foods

Principal Data Platform Architect

Ventura Foods

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Irvine • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $145,519 - $192,522 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudETL

About the role

  • Define and own the enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap
  • Develop the architectural vision for data, integration, analytics, and AI platforms
  • Align platform capabilities with evolving business needs such as growth, efficiency, compliance, and innovation
  • Establish architectural principles, standards, and governance
  • Design and govern Snowflake-based lakehouse architecture (medallion model)
  • Ensure data quality, lineage, and security across structured and semi-structured data
  • Optimize performance, cost management, and multi-tenant scalability
  • Lead integration architecture across systems and data domains
  • Define patterns for API-led, event-driven, and batch data movement
  • Enable and expand self-service BI and analytics
  • Lay the foundation for machine learning and AI platforms

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field required
  • 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platforms
  • 5+ years in a senior/lead architect role driving platform strategy, standards, and governance at enterprise scale
  • Proven expertise designing and operating cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake or similar), including lakehouse/medallion architectures
  • Hands-on experience with ELT/ETL tools, data modeling, and metadata management (dbt, Fivetran, or comparable)
  • Strong background in enterprise integration (API-led, event-driven, or batch patterns)
  • Demonstrated success enabling self-service BI and analytics platforms with governed semantic layers
  • Exposure to machine learning/AI platforms and MLOps practices for operationalizing models
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills; experience influencing technical and executive audiences.
Benefits
  • Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
  • Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
  • Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
  • Employee Appreciation Events
  • Employee Assistance Programs

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data architecturedata engineeringenterprise data platformscloud-based data platformslakehouse architecturemedallion modelELT toolsETL toolsdata modelingmetadata management
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementinfluencing