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NextDeavor Inc.

Principal Data Architect

Irvine, CA · Remote

$126K - $214K/yr

Principal Data Architect Full-time Remote Exclusive confidential search -- details shared with qualified applicants. Become a Key Player as a Principal Data Architect You will design and build the ...

IPG Photonics

Principal Data Architect

Marlborough, MA · Remote

About the Role We are seeking a Principal Data Architect to lead the design of data architecture across our Microsoft Dynamics 365 ecosystem (ERP and CRM) and enterprise data platform. You will play ...

Qode

Principal Data Architect

CO · On-site +1

Principal Data Architect About the Role: Reporting to the Vice President of Data, the Principal Data Architect is the senior technical authority for how data is modeled, integrated, governed, and ...

MeridianLink

Principal Data Architect - AI

$126K - $214K/yr

Principal Data Architect About the Role Reporting to the Vice President of Data, the Principal Data Architect is the senior technical authority for how data is modeled, integrated, governed, and ...

Lamb Weston, Inc.

Sr Principal Data Architect

$146K - $220K/yr

Title: Sr Principal Data Architect Location: Statewide Multi Use, ID Job Requisition ID: Req-259227 Time Type: Full time About Lamb Weston You've probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it!

L3HHCM20

Principal, Data Engineer

Melbourne, FL · On-site +1

$153K - $284K/yr

Melbourne, FL; or Remote Opportunity Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days ... This individual will play a critical role in shaping our data architecture, ensuring the integrity ...

L3HHCM20

Principal, Data Engineer

Tallahassee, FL · On-site +1

$153K - $284K/yr

Melbourne, FL; or Remote Opportunity Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days ... This individual will play a critical role in shaping our data architecture, ensuring the integrity ...

Robert Half

Principal Data Engineer

Des Moines, IA · Remote

$225K - $300K/yr

Remote Salary: $225,000 - 300,000 base plus bonus potential *** For immediate and confidential ... This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you'll lead architecture decisions, build production ...

MD Anderson

Principal Data Engineer

Houston, TX · Remote

$146K/yr

Remote 100% within Texas only Why Us? UT MD Anderson offers the opportunity to lead transformative ... planning, architecture, analysis, design, and development of enterprise data pipelines and ...

MD Anderson

Principal Data Engineer

Houston, TX · Remote

Remote 100% within Texas only Why Us. UT MD Anderson offers the opportunity to lead transformative ... planning, architecture, analysis, design, and development of enterprise data pipelines and ...

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Principal Data Architect

Principal Data Architect

NextDeavor Inc.

Irvine, CA • Remote

$126K - $214K/yr

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Job description

Principal Data Architect
Full-time
Remote
Exclusive confidential search — details shared with qualified applicants.
 
Become a Key Player as a Principal Data Architect

You will design and build the enterprise data architecture that enables analytics, operations, and customer-facing data products for the organization. You will partner with product, engineering, analytics, ML, finance, risk, and customer-facing teams to translate needs into durable data designs. This is a hands-on, remote role where you will both define standards and implement critical models and reference implementations.

Here's How You'll Make an Impact on the Team
  • Define the enterprise data architecture across conceptual, logical, and physical models for analytical and operational platforms.
  • Design and maintain a meta-model capturing entities, relationships, business definitions, ownership, lineage, sensitivity classifications, and SLAs; integrate it with tooling.
  • Architect and drive lakehouse strategy (medallion bronze/silver/gold Delta Lake patterns), including partitioning, clustering, schema evolution, SCDs, and reproducibility.
  • Write PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake code; build reference implementations, prototype patterns, review pull requests, and personally model critical domains.
  • Set patterns for ingestion via enterprise integration platforms and Databricks pipelines, including CDC, batch, streaming, and API-based sourcing.
  • Partner with governance, security, and compliance to operationalize cataloging, lineage, classification, masking, and access controls (e.g., Unity Catalog, IDMC).
  • Establish and standardize data modeling practices, naming conventions, and review processes; coach engineers on dimensional modeling and Data Vault approaches.
  • Identify tooling and capability gaps, propose investments, and drive multi-quarter initiatives to improve how the organization uses data.
Here's What You'll Need to Be Successful in This Role
  • 12–15+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data warehousing, and data architecture, with several recent years at the architect level.
  • Demonstrated experience as a Data Architect at a SaaS company in FinTech or financial services software.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Databricks and PySpark on Azure, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, structured streaming, and performance tuning at scale.
  • Production experience with Informatica Data Management Cloud (IDMC) or comparable enterprise integration platforms.
  • Proven track record designing and shipping meta-models and end-to-end data models (conceptual, logical, physical) to production.
  • Strong command of dimensional modeling (Kimball), Data Vault 2.0, and modern lakehouse patterns; ability to choose the right approach per use case.
  • Expert SQL skills and strong proficiency in Python/PySpark; comfortable writing production code.
  • Experience implementing data governance, lineage, and metadata management programs.
  • Working knowledge of FinTech-relevant regulatory and compliance considerations (e.g., GLBA, SOC 2, PCI, NIST, state lending regulations).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex data concepts to engineers, executives, customers, and auditors.
Here's What Else Might Help You Out
  • Prior experience designing data architectures for multi-tenant SaaS platforms with customer-facing analytics or embedded reporting.
  • Experience supporting loan origination, deposit account opening, or other consumer lending workflows and related data domains (applicants, applications, decisions, funding, servicing, credit data, fraud, KYC/AML).
  • Experience building feature stores or curated data products serving ML/AI workloads and BI consumers.
  • Familiarity with Azure data services (ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Event Hubs, Synapse, Purview) in conjunction with Databricks.
  • Experience with dbt, Great Expectations, or other modern data quality and transformation tooling on Databricks.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Pay Range

$126K to 214K/year

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