Remote Principal Data Architect for Enterprise AI & Grid

Electric Power Engineers; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits (medical,

100% premium coverage for you

MyShare Employee Ownership Program

401K match up to 4%

Job summary

Electric Power Engineers (EPE) is seeking a Principal Data Architect to establish enterprise data architecture foundations and partner across Software, Analytics, Finance, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure. This leadership role defines standards, integration patterns, canonical models, and governance to support reporting, automation, and AI use cases.

The role is hands-on and influences delivery teams while shaping the future data capability as EPE grows, reporting to the CIO.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data, Engineering, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, enterprise applications, software engineering, analytics platforms, or related technology roles.
• Experience designing enterprise data models, data integration patterns, data pipelines, or modern data platforms.
• Experience with cloud data ecosystems, data lake/lakehouse patterns, data warehouses, or platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or similar technologies.
• Experience enabling analytics, reporting, automation, AI/ML, GenAI, or RAG use cases through governed and reusable data patterns preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain EPE’s enterprise data architecture standards, including lakehouse, warehouse, data mart, and curated data layer patterns.
• Develop canonical data models, reusable data domains, and semantic definitions across key enterprise systems.
• Partner with application, software, and analytics teams to ensure data structures are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Help establish practical architecture patterns that support reporting, analytics, integration, automation, and AI readiness.
• Review proposed data models, pipelines, integrations, and platform changes for alignment with enterprise standards.

Skills

Hands-on architect

Strong communicator

Collaborative partner

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Data/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

Azure

Job description

Electric Power Engineers (EPE) is seeking a Principal Data Architect to establish enterprise data architecture foundations and partner across Software, Analytics, Finance, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure. This leadership role defines standards, integration patterns, canonical models, and governance to support reporting, automation, and AI use cases.

The role is hands-on and influences delivery teams while shaping the future data capability as EPE grows, reporting to the CIO.