Principal Solutions Architect – Cross-Cloud Data Platform

Appnovation Technologies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Appnovation Technologies is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to define the architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform across Databricks, Snowflake, and adjacent cloud sources. You will translate product vision into concrete design specifications, establishing standards and guiding the engineering team toward scalable data consumption.

You will lead architecture artifacts, governance, and cross-cloud collaboration, working with enterprise engineering practices and client-focused

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Ten+ years of technology experience in solution, enterprise, or data architecture.
• Experience designing cross-cloud and multi-cloud data architectures.
• Deep expertise in data governance and access control.
• Experience defining data-contract standards and embedding governance metadata.
• Strong background in identity and access management for users and machine identities.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain trade-offs to diverse audiences.
• Prior consulting or client-facing delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform.
• Produce architecture artifacts and standards (decision records, reference architectures).
• Define catalog and metadata integration patterns across cloud environments.
• Design agent- and MCP-based access patterns for enterprise AI tools.
• Set future-state direction for data products and cross-source data composition.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise engineering practices while guiding data consumption.

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Data governance

IAM / access management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

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

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Collibra

Unity Catalog

Horizon

Neo4j

Terraform

OAuth/OIDC

Job description

Appnovation Technologies is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to define the architecture for a governed, zero-copy data platform across Databricks, Snowflake, and adjacent cloud sources. You will translate product vision into concrete design specifications, establishing standards and guiding the engineering team toward scalable data consumption.

You will lead architecture artifacts, governance, and cross-cloud collaboration, working with enterprise engineering practices and client-focused