Data Mesh Architect & Enterprise Data Strategy Lead

Government Employees Insurance Company; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is hiring a Principal Data Architect to define and drive enterprise data architecture using data mesh principles. You will lead domain-owned data products, design reference architectures and governance models, and guide a multi-year roadmap with executives.

You will mentor architects and engineers, collaborate with security and compliance teams, and partner with business leaders to translate architecture into concrete programs across AWS/Azure/GCP and modern data stack tools.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data architecture, data engineering or platform architecture.
• Experience leading a data mesh or data product initiative.
• Deep knowledge of modern data stack patterns and cloud data warehouses/lakehouses.
• Strong data modeling across dimensional, data vault, event-driven and domain models.
• Hands-on with data contracts, metadata, lineage and quality/observability tooling.
• Governance, security and privacy architecture with policy-as-code guidance.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state data architecture built on data mesh principles and establish domain ownership models.
• Own multi-year data architecture vision and phased roadmap with stakeholders.
• Design federated governance and enterprise canonical models and data cataloging.
• Lead architecture reviews, mentor staff, and translate architecture into an executable roadmap.

Skills

Data architecture

Data mesh

Data product thinking

Cloud platforms

SQL

Python/Scala/Java

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Job description

GEICO is hiring a Principal Data Architect to define and drive enterprise data architecture using data mesh principles. You will lead domain-owned data products, design reference architectures and governance models, and guide a multi-year roadmap with executives.

You will mentor architects and engineers, collaborate with security and compliance teams, and partner with business leaders to translate architecture into concrete programs across AWS/Azure/GCP and modern data stack tools.