Principal Data Architect

Role overview Set technical direction for complex data architecture and the platforms that support analytics and production AI. As a senior technical authority, you will guide how organizations model, move, secure, govern, and use data, while staying hands-on with delivery and helping leadership and clients make long-term platform decisions.

Responsibilities - Establish architecture standards for warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, open table formats, and data modeling approaches. - Define batch and streaming platform direction, orchestration, and the trade-offs involved in scale, reliability, and cost. - Design data governance practices covering lineage, quality, cataloging, access controls, compliance, and audit readiness. - Shape AI and machine-learning data foundations, including feature stores, vector search, retrieval pipelines, semantic layers, and knowledge graphs. - Set expectations for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability across data platforms. - Advise leadership and clients, contribute to pre-sales as needed, mentor experienced engineers, and remain involved through prototypes, code, and design reviews.

Requirements - Principal-level experience owning data architecture and setting technical direction across complex environments. - Strong command of data modeling and platform patterns, including dimensional modeling, Data Vault, data mesh, and data products. - Experience designing scalable batch and streaming systems, orchestration, and production data foundations for AI or machine learning. - Knowledge of data security, governance, and compliance concerns such as sensitive information, residency, and audit requirements. - Ability to communicate architecture decisions to technical teams, executives, and clients, and to mentor senior practitioners. - Hands-on engineering judgment, including experience with production code, design reviews, and platform operations.

Benefits and work setup Remote work is available in Canada and the United States. The listed salary ranges are $170,000–$240,000 USD in the US and $190,000–$260,000 CAD in Canada. Eligible employees receive paid time off, health and dental and vision coverage, and retirement plan matching.