Principal Data Architect: Data Mesh & Platform Leader

GEICO; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 136.000 - 212.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

GEICO is seeking a Principal Data Architect in the United States to shape enterprise data architecture through a domain-oriented data mesh. You will set technical direction and drive a multi-year roadmap enabling federated data ownership as a product, backed by a self-serve platform and governance.

This is senior, hands-on leadership partnering with domain teams and executives. You will own the multi-year vision for data architecture, justify investments, and mentor engineers while designing

Competenze

• 12+ years in data architecture, data engineering or platform architecture, with at least 3 years in a principal, staff or enterprise architect role.
• Demonstrated experience designing or leading a data mesh, data product or domain-oriented data architecture, ideally through at least one production rollout.
• Deep knowledge of modern data stack patterns: cloud data warehouses and lakehouses, open table formats, streaming and orchestration.
• Strong data modeling skills across dimensional, data vault, event-driven and domain models.

Mansioni

• Define the target-state data architecture built on data mesh principles and data as a product.
• Establish domain ownership models with business and engineering leaders.
• Design reference architectures for data products including ingestion, storage, transformation, serving, and consumption patterns.
• Specify data product standards: interfaces, SLAs and SLOs, schemas and contracts, metadata and lineage.
• Guide the self-serve data platform so domain teams can publish and operate data products with minimal friction.
• Own multi-year data architecture vision and a phased roadmap.
• Build the business case and investment narrative for executives.
• Create a maturity model and adoption plan for domains.

Conoscenze

Data architecture

Data mesh

Domain-driven design

Data products

SQL

Python

Scala

Java

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field

Strumenti

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Iceberg

Delta

Hudi

Kafka

Flink

Spark Structured Streaming

Airflow

Descrizione del lavoro

GEICO is seeking a Principal Data Architect in the United States to shape enterprise data architecture through a domain-oriented data mesh. You will set technical direction and drive a multi-year roadmap enabling federated data ownership as a product, backed by a self-serve platform and governance.

This is senior, hands-on leadership partnering with domain teams and executives. You will own the multi-year vision for data architecture, justify investments, and mentor engineers while designing