Principal Data Platform Architect – Azure & Databricks

Stryker; Kalamazoo (MI); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation in the United States is seeking a Principal Architect for the EDT Data Platform Engineering to translate enterprise data architecture into scalable Azure/Databricks Lakehouse solutions. You will partner with delivery teams, data stewards, and business stakeholders to build governed data pipelines and analytics-ready models.

Responsibilities include designing Bronze-to-Silver transformations with quality checks, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, IaC automation, and aligning models

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS or equivalent.
• 8+ years in data engineering, warehousing, and analytics on Azure/Databricks.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
• Strong PySpark/Python and SQL skills for batch and streaming pipelines.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, and cloud automation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder partnership.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise data architecture into scalable Azure/Databricks solutions.
• Build and maintain ingestion frameworks with data quality and contracts.
• Optimize batch and streaming pipelines for cost and performance.
• Own CI/CD and automate onboarding, repos, pipelines, and templates.
• Lead onboarding, design reviews, and create reusable assets.
• Enforce data governance with Unity Catalog and metadata policies.

Skills

Data architecture

Big data engineering

Python/PySpark

SQL

Leadership

Azure ecosystem

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related

Master's degree preferred

Azure analytics certification (preferred)

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure SQL

Databricks

Delta Lake

Delta Live Tables

Spark

Unity Catalog

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Stryker Corporation in the United States is seeking a Principal Architect for the EDT Data Platform Engineering to translate enterprise data architecture into scalable Azure/Databricks Lakehouse solutions. You will partner with delivery teams, data stewards, and business stakeholders to build governed data pipelines and analytics-ready models.

Responsibilities include designing Bronze-to-Silver transformations with quality checks, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, IaC automation, and aligning models