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Principal Infrastructure Architect: Data Platform

Bethesda💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Principal Infrastructure Architect partnering with data engineering to establish cloud patterns, evaluate technologies, and enable data platform operations on GCP.

Role type

Principal Infrastructure Architect (Data Platform)

Builds

Cloud-native data platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and reference implementations for streaming, databases, and analytics on GCP.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure & Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

GCP architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, data infrastructure at scale, technology evaluation, performance engineering

Preferred skills

Lakehouse/data mesh migration, data governance, graph databases, AI/ML data workload infrastructure

Technologies

GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Confluent, Flink, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Iceberg, Elasticsearch, Solr, Airflow, Dataflow, Beam, Terraform

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain infrastructure patterns for data workloads; Evaluate new data technologies and vendor offerings; Support data consolidation and governance efforts; Participate in cross-domain architecture reviews; Enable teams through design reviews and workshops.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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