- Drive adoption of modern data stack technologies and best practices (e.g., data lakehouse architecture).
- Partner with product managers, data scientists, analysts, and engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Mentor data engineers and provide architectural oversight during design, implementation, and deployment phases.
- Define and enforce standards for access control, quality, cataloging, and observability across domains.
- Provide hands-on leadership and technical mentorship to Software engineers, data engineers and platform developers.
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to align with broader org standards and policies.
- Evaluate emerging tools and technologies in the data ecosystem and recommend solutions to improve scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Own architecture documentation and promote reuse of patterns and capabilities across Data Platform.
- Ensure platform compliance with data privacy and security requirements (e.g., GxP).
Break into Basic Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Over 12 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on designing and implementing scalable data architectures. Proven expertise in architecting end-to-end data solutions on AWS
- Background in architecting and leading self-service data platform capabilities
- Deep understanding of data lakehouse architecture
- Hands-on experience with data services such as AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, as well as proficiency in Python, SQL, and dbt, spark and apache iceberg
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern DevOps practices
- Experience leading teams or mentoring junior engineers.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with data governance frameworks, lineage, cataloging, and metadata management
- Familiarity with data privacy, compliance, and security best practices.
- Prior experience working in a highly collaborative environment with product, data science, and analytics teams