Remote Principal Data Architect for AI & Data Platforms

robotsandpencils; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health, dental & vision care

Retirement plan matching

Job summary

robotsandpencils is seeking a senior Data Architecture leader to set the technical direction for complex data platforms supporting analytics and production AI. You will guide data modeling, security, governance, and platform choices while remaining hands-on with delivery and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities include establishing standards for data warehouses and lakehouse architectures, batch/streaming orchestration, and AI data foundations. Remote work is available in the US and Canada.

Qualifications

• Principal-level experience owning data architecture and setting technical direction across complex environments.
• Strong command of data modeling and platform patterns, including dimensional modeling, Data Vault, data mesh, and data products.
• Experience designing scalable batch and streaming systems, orchestration, and production data foundations for AI or machine learning.
• Knowledge of data security, governance, and compliance concerns such as sensitive information, residency, and audit requirements.
• Ability to communicate architecture decisions to technical teams, executives, and clients, and to mentor senior practitioners.
• Hands-on engineering judgment, including experience with production code, design reviews, and platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Establish architecture standards for warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, open table formats, and data modeling approaches.
• Define batch and streaming platform direction, orchestration, and the trade-offs involved in scale, reliability, and cost.
• Design data governance practices covering lineage, quality, cataloging, access controls, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Shape AI and machine-learning data foundations, including feature stores, vector search, retrieval pipelines, semantic layers, and knowledge graphs.
• Set expectations for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability across data platforms.
• Advise leadership and clients, contribute to pre-sales as needed, mentor experienced engineers, and remain involved through prototypes, code, and design reviews.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Batch/streaming design

Security & governance

Communication with execs

Hands-on engineering

Mentor engineers

Job description

robotsandpencils is seeking a senior Data Architecture leader to set the technical direction for complex data platforms supporting analytics and production AI. You will guide data modeling, security, governance, and platform choices while remaining hands-on with delivery and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities include establishing standards for data warehouses and lakehouse architectures, batch/streaming orchestration, and AI data foundations. Remote work is available in the US and Canada.