Principal Data Platform Architect (Remote)

Unknown Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan

401k

Life Insurance

Unlimited PTO

9 paid holidays

Family leave

Work From Home

Free food & snacks

Job summary

Worth AI is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to own the company-wide data architecture and platform. You will design scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, establish data quality and governance, and enable analytics and ML through secure, cost-efficient systems.

You will partner with engineering, product, analytics, and security to turn business needs into durable data products, leading architecture decisions and setting standards across pipelines, storage, and semantic models.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering (including staff/principal scope)
• Proven leadership of company-wide data architecture and platform initiatives
• Deep experience with at least one cloud (AWS) and a modern warehouse/lakehouse (Snowflake/Redshift/Databricks)
• Strong SQL and programming in Python or Scala/Java
• Orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect), transformations (dbt), streaming (Kafka/Kinesis)
• Data modeling (3NF, star, data vault) and semantic/metrics layers
• Data quality, lineage, observability in production
• Security: RBAC/ABAC, encryption, audits
• Nice-to-have: feature stores, ML data ops, governance tools
• Nice-to-have: cost optimization, multi-tenant architectures

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end data architecture for lakehouse, batch/streaming, and metadata
• Publish roadmaps, ADRs/RFCs, and north star target states
• Design and build scalable ELT/ETL pipelines and event pipelines
• Provide self-service tooling for analysts/scientists (dbt/notebooks/catalogs)
• Define data SLAs/SLOs, lineage, and governance protocols
• Drive cost optimization and FinOps for storage/compute
• Ensure security, encryption, and compliance with privacy regulations
• Deliver versioned datasets/features for BI and ML
• Mentor senior engineers and lead design reviews
• Translate business goals into data products with cross-functional teams

Skills

Data architecture

ELT/ETL pipelines

Snowflake

Redshift

Databricks

SQL

Python

Scala/Java

Airflow

dbt

Data quality

Governance

Security best practices

Leadership

Tools

Dagster

Prefect

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Worth AI is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to own the company-wide data architecture and platform. You will design scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, establish data quality and governance, and enable analytics and ML through secure, cost-efficient systems.

You will partner with engineering, product, analytics, and security to turn business needs into durable data products, leading architecture decisions and setting standards across pipelines, storage, and semantic models.