Principal Architect, Data Product Delivery (Hybrid)

Stryker; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 136,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Principal Architect, Data Product Delivery to lead scalable, secure data and analytics solutions across programs. You will partner with engineering, governance, security, and product teams to translate strategy into practical architecture, roadmaps, and reusable patterns.

You will define standards, review architecture decisions, and mentor engineers to balance performance, cost, and maintainability while embedding governance and privacy controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 8+ years in data engineering or solution architecture roles with ownership.
• Experience building large-scale enterprise data platforms and integration solutions.
• Hands-on with cloud data platforms, data modeling, and modern data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture direction and reusable components for data ingestion, storage, transformation, analytics, and consumption.
• Own architecture diagrams, designs, and data models for Data and Analytics verticals.
• Mentor engineers and architects through design, planning, and reviews.
• Translate strategic requirements into technical designs and phased roadmaps.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Architectural ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline

Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Delta Lake

Delta Live Tables

Unity Catalog

SQL

Python

Job description

As a Principal Architect, Data Product Delivery, you will lead the design of scalable, secure, and maintainable data and analytics solutions across multiple programs and business domains. You will partner with Engineering, Product Management, Data Governance, Security, platform teams, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into practical architecture, delivery roadmaps, and reusable implementation patterns.

What You Will Do

Technical Responsibilities

• Define architecture direction, standards, reference patterns, and reusable components for data ingestion, storage, transformation, analytics, and consumption.
• Own architecture diagrams, technical designs, integration blueprints, data models, standards, and architecture decision records for the Data and Analytics vertical.
• Develop proofs of concept, reference implementations, and reusable patterns that accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, frameworks, and advanced analytics capabilities, and recommend fit-for-purpose adoption.
• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews to assess scalability, performance, security, reliability, supportability, and engineering quality.
• Embed data privacy, access control, governance, and compliance requirements into solution designs with Data Governance and Security teams.
• Resolve complex performance, quality, scalability, integration, reliability, and operational challenges with engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and architects through solution design, implementation planning, technical evaluations, and delivery reviews.
• Translate strategic requirements into technical designs, delivery roadmaps, and phased implementation plans with Product Management, platform teams, and business stakeholders.

Knowledge and Capabilities

• Apply enterprise data architecture practices across data warehousing, Lakehouse, real-time streaming, data engineering, integration, analytics, and operational support.
• Balance scalability, performance, cost, maintainability, delivery constraints, and engineering trade-offs when designing solutions.
• Analyze ambiguous, cross-functional technical challenges and explain architecture decisions and trade-offs to technical and executive audiences.
• Influence technical decisions through expertise, collaboration, and hands-on leadership while staying current with relevant data and analytics technologies.

What You Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in data engineering, solution architecture, or technical design roles, including architecture ownership.
• Experience architecting large-scale enterprise data platforms and integration solutions.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, data modeling, modern data architecture patterns, Databricks or an equivalent Lakehouse platform, and guiding implementation teams through complex technical challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with Azure Data Services, Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, SQL, Python, ETL/ELT, change data capture, dimensional modeling, medallion architecture, and distributed data processing.
• Experience with ERP and integration ecosystems such as Oracle, JDE, Salesforce, SAP S/4HANA, Kafka, REST, or GraphQL, including commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, or finance data domains.
• Cloud architecture certification such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect; TOGAF or an equivalent enterprise architecture certification.

United States of America Pay Ranges

• USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual
• US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annual
• US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual

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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.