Principal Data Architect and Engineer

HomeServe; Norwalk (CT); On-site; USD 125,932 - 167,910; Full time

Job summary

HomeServe USA, based in Norwalk, CT, seeks a Principal Data Architect/Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of a metadata-driven AWS Lakehouse platform. You will drive secure, scalable data solutions, including Bronze through Gold layers and governance, enabling analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise decision-making.

The role requires hands-on cloud-native data platform expertise (Iceberg, S3 Tables, Lake Formation, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, API Gateway) and a strong emphasis on TDD

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or relevant field; advanced degree preferred.
• Hands-on experience as the technical owner of a production AWS Lakehouse.
• Experience building metadata-driven data platforms and governance.
• Strong communication and collaboration with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead evolution, optimization, and governance of HomeServe’s AWS-based data Lakehouse.
• Enhance metadata-driven ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks.
• Design and optimize batch and real-time data processing with AWS services.
• Manage data governance, including PII tokenization and access controls.
• Expand and maintain Customer 360 and Master Data Management capabilities.
• Set standards for a small data engineering team and promote quality.
• Drive DataOps and DevOps practices, including CI/CD and ephemeral environments.
• Develop runbooks, monitoring, and incident response processes.

Skills

Cloud data architecture

Data governance

CI/CD automation

Data quality validation

Stakeholder communication

Travel willingness

Education

BS in Computer Science or relevant field

Tools

AWS Lakehouse stack

Apache Iceberg

Redshift

AWS Glue

CloudFormation

API Gateway

Job description

Job Category

Non-Union Non-Contact Center

Requisition Number

PRINC008605

Job Details

• Posted: July 7, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

Location

45 Glover Ave
Norwalk, CT 06850, USA

Position Overview

The Principal Data Architect/Engineer will lead the design, development, and evolution of HomeServe’s metadata-driven AWS Lakehouse platform, combining strategic architecture leadership with hands‑on engineering expertise. This role is responsible for delivering scalable, secure, and high‑performance data solutions based on Medallion architecture, including Bronze ingestion, PII Vault tokenization, Silver‑layer Apache Iceberg (Amazon S3 Tables), and Gold‑layer Amazon Redshift data products. The position will drive DataOps automation, governance implementation, and fully‑ephemeral feature‑branch environments to accelerate the delivery of analytics, reporting, and AI/ML capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise building cloud‑native data platforms using Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3 Tables, Lake Formation tag‑based access control, DynamoDB single‑table design, CloudFormation, and API Gateway with custom authorizers. They will champion Test‑Driven Development (TDD), Great Expectations‑based data quality validation, and metadata‑driven engineering practices to ensure trusted, governed, and reusable data assets that power enterprise analytics, customer 360, AI/ML, and data‑driven decision‑making across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ongoing evolution, optimization, and governance of HomeServe’s AWS‑based enterprise Lakehouse platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Enhance and support existing metadata‑driven ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks, improving performance, maintainability, observability, and developer productivity.
• Design, implement, and optimize batch and real‑time data processing solutions leveraging AWS Glue, Lambda, Apache Iceberg (Amazon S3 Tables), Redshift, and related cloud‑native services.
• Manage and continuously improve enterprise data governance and privacy capabilities, including PII tokenization, right‑to‑erasure workflows, data lineage, and Lake Formation tag‑based access controls.
• Expand and maintain Customer 360 and Master Data Management (MDM) capabilities, including entity resolution, identity matching, and stewardship processes across enterprise data domains.
• Establish and enforce architecture, engineering, and operational standards for a small data engineering team, promoting consistency, quality, and scalability across platform components.
• Drive adoption of DataOps and DevOps best practices, including CI/CD automation, Test‑Driven Development (TDD), automated data quality validation, and fully‑ephemeral environments for pull requests and feature branches.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes, serving as a technical escalation point and incident commander during critical platform events.

Essential Functions (Time Distribution)

• Architecture and design: 25%
• Operations and incident response: 20%
• Stakeholder architecture work and mentoring: 15%
• Other functions: 40%

Job Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or relevant field; advanced degree preferred.
• Acts as a forward‑deployed senior engineer and technical authority for the data platform, embedded with business stakeholders, setting standards, leading design reviews, and growing the team.
• Deep, recent, hands‑on experience as the technical owner of a production AWS Lakehouse.
• Development of automated deployment frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and reliable data platform releases.
• Implementation of comprehensive data validation, monitoring, and quality assurance processes to ensure data accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability.
• Strong analytical, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel required.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions of the position for which they work. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to listen, talk and hear... [additional details omitted for brevity].

Compensation

Salary Range (Norwalk, CT): $125,932.60 – $167,910.13

Annual Bonus Potential: 10%

Equal Opportunity Statement

HomeServe USA is an equal opportunity employer.

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