Principal Data Platform Architect - Cross-Cloud & Governance

Appnovation; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Appnovation is seeking a senior Principal Solutions Architect to define architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform across Databricks, Snowflake and adjacent sources. This role translates a product vision into concrete design standards and integration priorities for the engineering team.

The leader will own end-to-end solution architecture with emphasis on governance, data products, and agent-based consumption.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in solution/enterprise or data architecture.
• Experience designing cross-cloud/multi-cloud data architectures.
• Knowledge of zero-copy, data-mmesh, and data-product principles.
• Strong governance, access control, and policy classification expertise.
• Experience defining data-contract standards and governance metadata.
• Identity and access management for users and machines.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform across cloud data sources.
• Produce architecture artifacts and standards to guide engineering teams.
• Define catalog and metadata integration patterns across cloud and lakehouse environments.
• Design agent-based access patterns exposing governed data products to AI tools.
• Set future-state direction for data products and cross-source composition.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise engineering practices while enabling agent-based data consumption.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Data governance

OAuth/OIDC

Stakeholder management

Cross-cloud

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Info Systems

Tools

Collibra

Unity Catalog

Horizon

Neo4j

Snowflake Cortex

Job description

Appnovation is seeking a senior Principal Solutions Architect to define architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform across Databricks, Snowflake and adjacent sources. This role translates a product vision into concrete design standards and integration priorities for the engineering team.

The leader will own end-to-end solution architecture with emphasis on governance, data products, and agent-based consumption.