Principal Cloud Data Platform Architect

Devopsroles

Bethesda (MD)

Hybrid

USD 158,000 - 248,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Architect with a data specialty to partner with our data engineering organization. You will shape patterns for data workloads, design scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, and ensure robust CI/CD, monitoring, and cost controls while staying hands-on through critical enablement initiatives.

You will drive architecture reviews, establish enterprise standards, and guide multiple teams in selecting technologies like Kafka/Confluent, BigQuery, and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
10+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform, or data infrastructure engineering experience.
Experience establishing patterns and standards used by multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Establish infrastructure patterns for data workloads and build reference implementations.
Define CI/CD and GitOps patterns for data jobs and pipelines.
Evaluate new data technologies through structured POCs.
Provide enablement and architectural guidance across teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

GCP/AWS

Terraform

GitOps

Kubernetes

Data infrastructure

Cost optimization

Performance tuning

Architecture reviews

ADR/Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka/Confluent

BigQuery

Snowflake

Iceberg

Elasticsearch

Airflow

Dataflow

Beam

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

You will drive architecture reviews, establish enterprise standards, and guide multiple teams in selecting technologies like Kafka/Confluent, BigQuery, and

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