Cloud Data Platform Architect & Tech Lead

Cisco Systems, Inc; San Jose (CA); Híbrido; USD 187.000 - 308.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) organization seeks a hands-on architectural leader to drive a next‑gen cloud-native data platform. You will own distributed pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and backend services end-to-end powering real-time CX analytics and AI-ready data foundations.

You’ll establish data modeling, observability, and governance standards while mentoring engineering pods and aligning execution with business priorities across platform, security, and product teams.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related experience, or a master's with 6+ years.
• Experience in Python and SQL for data engineering, automation, and transformation, along with backend development experience in languages such as Go, Java, Node.js, or Rust.
• Experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs, with experience in relational PostgreSQL, MySQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience implementing distributed messaging and streaming systems using Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or comparable technologies.
• Experience building and optimizing data platforms using modern lakehouse/warehouse technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or AWS Redshift or similar.
• Experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar and containerized deployments.

Responsabilidades

• Architect, build, and optimize scalable cloud-native backend services and data platforms supporting high-throughput ingestion, real-time analytics, and downstream AI/ML consumption.
• Design robust batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, implementing event-driven data flows, Change Data Capture (CDC), and modern lakehouse architectures (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).
• Data Quality & Observability: Establish enterprise-grade standards for data modeling, semantic layers, schema governance, distributed tracing, and real-time telemetry/alerting to ensure high data integrity and reliability.
• API & Service Integration: Define high-performance API contracts (REST, GraphQL) and backend microservices that expose trusted datasets and metrics for self-service reporting and AI applications.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Drive CI/CD automation, conduct code and design reviews, mentor senior and mid-level data engineers, and coordinate cross-team technical dependencies across platform, security, and product stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Python

SQL

Backend development

REST APIs

GraphQL

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Kafka

AWS/GCP/Azure

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Herramientas

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Descripción del empleo

Cisco's Customer Experience (CX) organization seeks a hands-on architectural leader to drive a next‑gen cloud-native data platform. You will own distributed pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and backend services end-to-end powering real-time CX analytics and AI-ready data foundations.

You’ll establish data modeling, observability, and governance standards while mentoring engineering pods and aligning execution with business priorities across platform, security, and product teams.