Principal Data Architect

OpsGuru; Calgary; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal Data Architect to provide expertise in Data Analytics and AI, guiding clients through technology adoption. This role combines technical depth with business acumen, engaging stakeholders at all levels. Responsibilities include mentoring, project oversight, and contributing to sales processes. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with cloud services and a strong background in data governance and compliance, along with excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP)

Access to the latest tech

Flexible work hours & location

Paid parental leave options

Training reimbursement

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT, 7+ years in cloud services.
• Experience in Data Platform modernization and ML implementations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance across Data Analytics and AI.
• Act as a trusted advisor and engage with stakeholders.
• Contribute to sales processes and account management.

Skills

Data Analytics

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Data Governance

Compliance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Python

Spark

Job description

OpsGuru, a Carbon60 Company, is a global engineering and consulting group specializing in data, machine learning / artificial intelligence, and cloud-native technologies. We empower customers by leveraging technology to solve their unique business challenges, guiding them toward successful digital transformation.

Our value to clients lies in our ability to provide deep technical guidance aligned with real business needs. Principal Data Architects play a critical role in this, bringing a high level of expertise in Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning, including Data Governance and Compliance. These architects combine technical depth with business acumen, enabling them to confidently engage stakeholders at all levels-from engineers to the C-suite-throughout the entire technology adoption lifecycle.

Principal Data Architects are assigned to multiple strategic accounts, where they act as trusted technical advisors. They are respected thought leaders who challenge and guide clients in a collaborative, respectful manner to ensure maximum value from their technology investments.

In addition to their client-facing responsibilities, Principal Architects actively contribute to the sales process-often in a pre-sales or subject matter expert (SME) capacity. They partner with Account Executives and Presales Architects to scope opportunities, define technical solutions, and help craft detailed statements of work. Their involvement in ongoing account management is essential to sustaining long-term client success.

Principal Architects may also take on leadership responsibilities, dedicating approximately 10% of their time to mentoring, supporting, and developing a team of architects and engineers as people managers.

What you'll be doing :

Principal Data Architects are expected to provide deep business and technical expertise across Data Analytics, Data Processing, Data Governance & AI & ML areas, as part of the role you will :

• Report directly to OpsGuru Engineering Leadership.
• Confidently discuss every stage of the technology adoption cycle all the way from the CEO to the developer, across multiple technical domains.
• Assigned to a number of accounts and are expected to work with their clients to become a trusted technical advisor.
• Thought leadership.
• Contribute to internal and external evangelism by creating and sharing content such as blog posts, whitepapers, and case studies that highlight best practices and success stories
• Represent OpsGuru at conferences and industry events as a speaker, panelist, or subject matter expert, as appropriate
• Guide and challenge clients in a respectful manner to ensure they receive the highest level of value from their technology investments.
• Provide oversight to project teams to ensure technical outcomes align to solving customer business problems within project budgets and timelines
• Work with Engagement Managers to help manage project scope, and work with project teams and customers to help manage project expectations and delivery quality
• Comfortably discuss budget considerations and ROI with stakeholders, ensuring clients understand how recommended technologies align with financial and strategic goals
• Participate in the sales process, typically in a pre-sales or equivalent capacity.
• Work alongside our Account Executives and Presales Architects to scope and provide support on creating statements of works for our clients, as well as being heavily involved in account management.

While this role is largely focused around technical and consulting based delivery directly with customers, the Principal Data Architect may also be required to act as a people manager for a team of several direct reports of Architects and Engineers.

This would include tasks such as having regular one-to-one meetings, having professional development and goal setting conversations, and acting as part of a communication and feedback system with your direct team. Additionally you would help to escalate administrative or project related issues brought to your attention, and provide recommendations towards performance reviews and promotions for your team.

• Technical and Consulting :

The ideal candidate applying for the Principal Data Architect Role has the following :

10+ years of experience in a relevant Information Technology environment

• 7+ years of experience delivering Professional Services on major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services - must, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure - nice to have) focusing on the following programs (3 minimum) :

Large Scale workload migrations (on prem to cloud, cloud to cloud)

• Data Platform modernisation
• Modern, large scale Lakehouse Implementations
• Data Security, Governance and Compliance
• Machine Learning and / or Artificial Intelligence Implementations
• Technological Exposure :

Previous hands on experience with AWS (Must) , Azure / Google Cloud (Nice to have)

• Python for Data Analytics
• Relational databases design, tuning and migration
• Experience with Enterprise Data Warehouses
• Data Lakes, Data Pipelines and ETL's
• Stream & Batch Processing with frameworks like Spark
• Data modeling for both transactional and analytics
• BI Dashboards & Data Visualizations
• Data Quality gates, Data Lineage, Data Catalogue
• Exposure to Machine Learning and MLOps Frameworks (ex : Sagemaker)
• Exposure to Generative AI and foundational models
• A history of delivering presentations to a wide ranging audience including CxO,VP, Director level executives
• A history of managing multiple complex projects with a wide variety of stakeholders, simultaneously
• Technical Pre-Sales experience with the ability to provide strong SME guidance in customer-facing sales and presales conversations.
• Able to confidently model costs and explain the total cost of ownership model of a proposed solution.
• A history of holding a budget and is able to model project costs and provide resourcing plans
• A history of handling customer requests and escalations and is able to confidently resolve challenges on projects effectively and swiftly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

People Management :

• Ability to adapt your communication style to individual team members
• Be an ambassador for the company by being able to explain our business value to customers, mission, and values
• Able to provide candid and constructive feedback to team members
• Have a bias to take ownership of challenges facing your team and see them through to conclusion
• An instinct to ask why to get deeper understanding of problems
• Ability to establish trust with your team and invest in building professional relationships
• Able to have gap analysis conversations and help team members define effective goals
• Ability to inspire and motivate others without needing to micromanage
• Strong emotional intelligence and listening skills
• A desire to operate in a mentorship capacity, enabling others' success
• Experience leading technical teams and providing quality control at both the macro and micro level.
• Participate in recruiting efforts, including crafting job descriptions, interviewing candidates, and evaluating new hires to build a high-performing team
• Oversee the onboarding process, ensuring new team members have the resources, training, and support needed to succeed

What's in it for you :

• Competitive compensation package
• Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP)
• Access to the latest tech
• Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts

Flexibility & Time Off

• Remote first work environment
• Flexible work hours & location
• Paid parental leave options
• Partnership with GreenShield+ Counselling Mental Health provider
• 500 in Health Care Spending Account annually

Growth & Development

• Training reimbursement (e.g courses on Udemy, Coursera, a-cloud-guru etc.)

At OpsGuru, we encourage employees to bring their whole, authentic selves to work. By sharing and embracing unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, we learn from each other, innovate, and create a dynamic environment where we can be and achieve our best.

We're dedicated to ensuring each member feels a sense of belonging, safety, and respect. At OpsGuru, your unique voice is heard and embraced, and you meaningfully contribute to decision-making and the organization's growth.

OpsGuru is committed to an equitable employee experience, opportunity, and support. If you require accommodations or support during the recruitment process, please email us at [e-mail].

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