Principal Data Architect - Data Platform & Analytics Leader

IDEXX; Westbrook (ME); On-site; USD 115,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision day-one

Annual cash bonus

401k matching 5%

Stock program

Volunteer paid days off

Foundation donation matching

Pet insurance

Job summary

IDEXX is seeking a Principal Data Architect who will shape the VetSoft Analytics data architecture and lead the team that builds it. You will own end-to-end data movement from source systems through pipelines to curated data products powering dashboards, self-service analytics, and AI agents.

Collaborating with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance, you will set standards, governance, and cost-efficient patterns at scale, while growing a high-impact engineering team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering, warehousing, or architecture with leadership experience.
• Expert SQL and hands-on dbt transformations with strong data modeling.
• Cloud data warehousing (Snowflake preferred) and modern ELT/orchestration tooling.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end data pipeline landscape (ELT) and ensure reliable delivery.
• Lead design/build of the dbt transformation layer with documented models.
• Deliver curated data sets for BI and AI with consistent definitions.
• Translate business requirements into scalable data models.
• Enforce engineering standards: code review, CI/CD, testing, docs.
• Own data governance: lineage, quality, metadata, and PII policies.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

Data modeling

Leadership

Data governance

ELT

Tools

Snowflake

Sigma

AWS

Airflow

dbt

Job description

IDEXX is seeking a Principal Data Architect who will shape the VetSoft Analytics data architecture and lead the team that builds it. You will own end-to-end data movement from source systems through pipelines to curated data products powering dashboards, self-service analytics, and AI agents.

Collaborating with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Finance, you will set standards, governance, and cost-efficient patterns at scale, while growing a high-impact engineering team.