Principal Architect, EDT Cloud Data & Analytics (Remote)

Stryker; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 136,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Dental & vision insurance

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Principal Architect for EDT Data & Analytics in the United States. You will own the operational excellence, security, and reliability of our enterprise data & analytics platform on Azure, spanning Databricks, Synapse, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Key Vault, and Unity Catalog.

Lead DevOps, IaC, and security-by-default practices for a globally distributed data engineering team. You will design and operate CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC with Terraform, and manage

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in cloud engineering, data warehousing, data engineering, or enterprise data and analytics platforms.
• Minimum 4 years of experience managing platform security and applying Azure data service security practices in enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on architecture and engineering experience building enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and cloud solutions.
• Experience with Azure data stack (Databricks, Synapse, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Key Vault) and Power BI.
• Experience designing and managing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Terraform IaC.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate Azure DevOps pipelines for CI/CD across environments.
• Maintain high service availability through effective workflow management and reliable releases.
• Implement and manage IaC using Terraform for consistent provisioning across environments.
• Own environment provisioning end to end, including compute, storage, networking, and access.
• Manage platform security with RBAC and security controls across Azure data services.
• Operate the platform with an SRE mindset: monitoring, alerting, incident management, and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with Data Platform and Data Product teams to design scalable enterprise data solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand data needs and priorities.
• Evaluate and manage vendor relationships for data and analytics.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

Data platform design

DevOps leadership

Security by design

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Synapse

ADLS Gen2

Azure SQL

Azure Data Factory

Key Vault

Unity Catalog

Terraform

Power BI

Job description

As a Principal Architect, EDT Data & Analytics you will own the operational excellence, security, and reliability of the enterprise data & analytics platform on Azure. The role combines platform operations, DevOps automation, and Infrastructure as Code across the core stack - Azure Databricks, Synapse, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, Key Vault, and Unity Catalog - with a reliability-engineering mindset: automate everything repeatable, secure everything by default, and keep the platform highly available for global data engineering and analytics teams.

What You Will Do

DevOps Pipeline Management & CI/CD

• Design, implement, and operate Azure DevOps pipelines for CI/CD - automating build, test, and deployment across development, testing, and production environments with reliable, repeatable releases.
• Maintain high service availability through effective workflow management, smooth promotion processes, and efficient pipeline operations.

Infrastructure as Code & Environment Provisioning

• Implement and manage platform infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring consistent, repeatable provisioning and configuration across all environments.
• Own environment provisioning end to end, workspaces, compute, storage, networking, and access, maintaining infrastructure integrity through automated IaC processes and drift detection.

Platform Security & Access Management

• Manage platform security in collaboration with development and operations teams - RBAC, access control, and security controls across Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Azure SQL, ADLS Gen2, Key Vault, and Unity Catalog.
• Implement and enforce Azure data service security best practices across the platform, including secrets management, identity integration, and least privilege access.

Platform Operations & Reliability Engineering

• Operate the platform with an SRE mindset, monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, capacity management, and incident management with root-cause analysis and preventive automation.
• Monitor and optimize integration runtimes and platform services for efficient data flow, troubleshooting and resolving runtime and pipeline issues to protect SLAs.

Data Engineering Operations

• Partner with Data Platform and Data Product teams to design and operationalize scalable enterprise data solutions across pipelines, orchestration, and Databricks workloads.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with internal D&A team to understand data needs and priorities.

Vendor Management

• Evaluate and manage relationships with external data and analytics vendors, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

What You Need

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in cloud engineering, data warehousing, data engineering, or enterprise data and analytics platforms.
• Minimum 4 years of experience managing platform security and applying Azure data service security practices in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated hands‑on architecture and engineering experience, with the ability to design and build enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and cloud solutions rather than solely providing governance, advisory, or oversight.
• Experience with the Azure data stack, including Azure Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows/DLT), ADLS Gen2, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Key Vault, along with modern data engineering practices and Power BI.
• Experience designing and managing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including automated build, testing, deployment, and promotion across multiple environments.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to automate and standardize cloud infrastructure and environment provisioning.
• Experience operating enterprise cloud data platforms, including monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, troubleshooting, incident management, and reliability improvement.
• Experience defining and operationalizing enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and architecture review processes.
• Experience implementing data security, privacy, and access controls within regulated environments, including requirements related to GxP, HIPAA, and PII/PHI.
• Experience influencing technical design decisions across engineering teams, including reviewing in-flight solutions, identifying architectural risks, and driving remediation.

Preferred

• Master’s degree.
• Azure analytics or cloud certification.

United States of America Pay Ranges

• USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual
• US5: $142,400 - $237,200 USD Annual
• US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annual
• US15: $155,900 - $259,800 USD Annual
• US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual
• US30: $176,300 - $293,700 USD Annual

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.