Senior Manager/Lead Systems & Data Architect
$184,600–$184,600 year
On-siteBelmont, California, United States
Job Summary
Design and own a cloud-native, enterprise-scale data architecture supporting batch, streaming, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Develop a multi-year modernization roadmap balancing delivery speed, risk, and cost efficiency while driving decisions across Snowflake, Databricks, and cloud-native services. Partner with engineering, analytics, and data science teams to define standards for ingestion, transformation, and governance, ensuring robust data quality and lineage. Lead DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code adoption to establish environment management, observability, and security-by-design patterns. Act as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, communicating complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or platform engineering roles
- Deep hands-on expertise with SQL, Spark, and Python, and strong understanding of distributed data processing
- Strong experience designing and operating data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including compute, storage, networking, and security
- Solid background in data governance, metadata management, lineage, and cataloging (e.g., Purview, Collibra, Alation)
- Experience with real-time and streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt)
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and complex migration programs
- Exceptional communication skills and executive-level presence
Desired Qualifications
- Snowflake, Databricks, or cloud provider certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Hands-on experience building ML and AI pipelines on Databricks or similar platforms
- Experience with multi-petabyte-scale data platforms
- Familiarity with data mesh, lakehouse, and domain-oriented data product concepts
- Exposure to LLM pipelines, vector databases, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures
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