Principal Data Architect
$147,050–$230,850 year
On-site · Houston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Principal Data Architect leads enterprise data platform architecture and data strategy to enable scalable AI/ML, telemetry analytics, and BI solutions. Owns end-to-end data ecosystems from ingestion to insights, partners with Data Science/AI teams, designs future-ready data platforms, industrializes ML pipelines, and drives data as a strategic asset. Designs enterprise data architectures (batch, streaming, real-time) for large-scale structured and unstructured data; establishes data standards, governance, and reusable frameworks; leads data warehouses/data lakes and data mesh/medallion architectures; defines roadmap for modern data stack adoption (cloud-native, lakehouse, GenAI-ready). Enablement of AI/ML through productionized pipelines and MLOps; governance, security, and compliance alignment with privacy/guidelines; cross-functional leadership with executives and boards; compensation: $147,050-$230,850 USD annually with benefits; location: Houston, TX, USA; full-time; travel: No; relocation: No; EEO: standard.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience in Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
- Data platforms: Data Lakes, Lakehouse, Data Warehousing
- ETL/ELT and pipeline orchestration
- Programming: Python, SQL (mandatory)
- Scala/Java (good to have)
- Streaming and real-time data systems
- Data modeling and governance
- MLOps / model deployment pipelines
- Modern architecture (Data Mesh, Medallion, API-driven data services)
- Knowledge & Skills Agile Methodology
- Apache Hadoop
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Spark
- Big Data
- Data Analysis
- Data Engineering
- Data Modeling
- Data Pipelines
- Extract Transform Load (ETL)
- Java (Programming Language)
- Machine Learning
- Microsoft Azure
- Python (Programming Language)
- Scala (Programming Language)
- Scalability
- SQL (Programming Language)
- Cross-Org Skills
- Effective Communication
- Results Orientation
- Learning Agility
- Digital Fluency
- Customer Centricity
- Impact & Scope
- Complexity
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