Principal Data Architect — Enterprise Data & Platforms

Abbott; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 129,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Principal Data Engineer (IC) to lead enterprise data capabilities and provide technical direction across data domains. You will stay hands-on through prototyping, design reviews, and production problem solving, enabling scalable, compliant data platforms.

The role emphasizes architecture, standards, and governance for analytics, ML, and AI, with enterprise-wide impact and collaboration with multiple teams. Madison, WI-based with potential relocation support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• Expert-level experience with software development design and development and relevant domain skills.
• Spark on Databricks or comparable platforms; Python, Scala, SQL, and Snowflake experience.
• ETL and ELT data pipelines, including batch and event-driven patterns.
• Data modeling with relational, dimensional, or NoSQL databases.
• DB architecture testing, debugging, and test scripting.
• Open data file formats (Parquet, Avro, Delta Lake); cloud services (AWS, S3, SQS); CI/CD.
• REST API development; BI concepts and Tableau performance considerations.
• Agile tools including JIRA and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical outcome of cross-domain initiatives from ambiguity to production and lifecycle support.
• Decompose enterprise needs into architecture and deliverable increments across domains.
• Coordinate execution across domain teams, identifying dependencies and risks.
• Stay hands-on through prototypes, reference implementations, and critical-path development.
• Lead architecture for enterprise data capabilities including semantic layers and governed data products.
• Define standards and drive convergence to reduce cost and risk.
• Review designs and mentor staff engineers without formal authority.
• Evaluate reliability, scalability, security, and operability of architectures.

Skills

Databricks

Python

Scala

SQL

Spark

ETL/ELT

APIs

Agile

Communication

Leadership by influence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, CS, IS, Math or Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Snowflake

AWS

S3

SQS

GitLab CI/CD

Tableau

Job description

Abbott is seeking a Principal Data Engineer (IC) to lead enterprise data capabilities and provide technical direction across data domains. You will stay hands-on through prototyping, design reviews, and production problem solving, enabling scalable, compliant data platforms.

The role emphasizes architecture, standards, and governance for analytics, ML, and AI, with enterprise-wide impact and collaboration with multiple teams. Madison, WI-based with potential relocation support.