Principal Data Platform Infra Architect — Remote

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC; United States; Remote; USD 158,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC is hiring a Principal Infrastructure Architect to partner with the data engineering org, building patterns for data platforms on GCP and related tech. You will lead cloud, Kubernetes, and IaC efforts, ensuring scalable, secure data delivery with cost awareness and strong governance.

You will evaluate new data technologies, drive enablement, and own reference implementations while staying hands-on through critical initiatives and architecture reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10–15+ years of cloud infrastructure or data infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience designing patterns used across teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish infrastructure patterns for data workloads and provide reference implementations.
• Lead enablement and alignment with data teams on patterns and trade‑offs.
• Run structured evaluations of new data technologies and vendor options.
• Define patterns for connecting vendor‑managed data services to GCP with secure connectivity.
• Contribute to data consolidation and governance initiatives through infrastructure guidance.
• Prototype and hand off reference implementations and ADRs.
• Participate in architecture reviews and expand the standards library.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

GCP/AWS experience

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Data systems knowledge

Networking

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

BigQuery

Snowflake

Elasticsearch

Solr

Kafka/Confluent

Airflow/Composer

Dataflow/Beam

Iceberg

Job description

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC is hiring a Principal Infrastructure Architect to partner with the data engineering org, building patterns for data platforms on GCP and related tech. You will lead cloud, Kubernetes, and IaC efforts, ensuring scalable, secure data delivery with cost awareness and strong governance.

You will evaluate new data technologies, drive enablement, and own reference implementations while staying hands-on through critical initiatives and architecture reviews.