Principal Engineer, Domain Knowledge & Data Discovery

Teradata

San Diego (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

8 hours ago

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Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Principal Engineer, Domain Knowledge, to define and build the next generation of enterprise-scale data discovery, inventory, and metadata management capabilities across Finance, Healthcare, and other verticals.

You will own architecture, engineering, and evolution of systems that enable analysts, data scientists, AI agents, and business users to discover, understand, trust, and govern data assets across the organization.

Qualifications

12+ years of experience building large-scale data platforms, metadata systems, search platforms, or knowledge management technologies.
5+ years leading architecture and implementation of enterprise data catalog, metadata management, or data discovery platforms.
Proven track record designing systems that inventory and index thousands to millions of enterprise data assets.
Deep experience with metadata ingestion, metadata modeling, lineage, governance, and data asset management.
Strong software engineering background with demonstrated expertise in distributed systems and platform engineering.
Experience building highly available, cloud-scale systems running in production environments.
Expertise in at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

Responsibilities

Lead development of metadata models, business glossaries, taxonomies, ontologies, and enterprise information architectures.
Establish standards for technical, business, operational, and governance metadata.
Design lineage capture and metadata synchronization frameworks across heterogeneous ecosystems.
Build metadata knowledge graphs connecting datasets, pipelines, dashboards, reports, AI models, metrics, owners, and business domains.