Remote Principal Data Platform Engineer AI Architecture

Eightelevengroup; Mount Horeb, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Eightelevengroup is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to lead architecture, reliability, and evolution of the enterprise data platform including analytical data stacks and MDM. You will drive the data platform roadmap, implement cloud infrastructure as code, ensure data quality and observability, and mentor a team of data engineers and BI developers.

You will partner with executives to set standards, govern master data, and enable AI-enabled analytics across multiple business domains

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience, including data engineering and platform work
• Expert-level SQL and Python for data engineering
• Deep expertise with modern data stack (GCP, BigQuery, dbt)

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and operations of the enterprise data platform
• Manage cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Define and evolve the data architecture roadmap and standards
• Mentor data engineers and Looker developers
• Drive cost optimization and reliability improvements

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

BigQuery

dbt

Fivetran

Airbyte

Looker

Hex

Terraform

Dagster

Airflow

Pimcore

AI integration

Tools

GCP

Looker

Hex

dbt

Fivetran

Airbyte

Terraform

Dagster

Airflow

BigQuery

Job description

Eightelevengroup is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to lead architecture, reliability, and evolution of the enterprise data platform including analytical data stacks and MDM. You will drive the data platform roadmap, implement cloud infrastructure as code, ensure data quality and observability, and mentor a team of data engineers and BI developers.

You will partner with executives to set standards, govern master data, and enable AI-enabled analytics across multiple business domains