Principal Infrastructure Architect: Data Platform
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