Principal Azure Data Platform Architect (SRE‑Driven)

Stryker; Mahwah (NJ); Remote; USD 136,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Principal Architect, EDT Data & Analytics, to own the enterprise data & analytics platform on Azure, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence. You will lead DevOps automation, IaC (Terraform), and platform security across Databricks, Synapse, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Key Vault, and Unity Catalog.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, incident management, capacity planning, and collaboration with data teams to deliver scalable, compliant data solutions

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Partner with Data Platform and Data Product teams to design and operationalize scalable enterprise data solutions across pipelines, orchestration, and Databricks workloads.
• Collaborate with internal D&A team to understand data needs and priorities.
• Evaluate and manage relationships with external data and analytics vendors, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Job description

Stryker is seeking a Principal Architect, EDT Data & Analytics, to own the enterprise data & analytics platform on Azure, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence. You will lead DevOps automation, IaC (Terraform), and platform security across Databricks, Synapse, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Key Vault, and Unity Catalog.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, incident management, capacity planning, and collaboration with data teams to deliver scalable, compliant data solutions