Senior Enterprise Analytics Architect

Principal International; Des Moines, Northern (IA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Pension plan

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Principal Global Investors is seeking a Senior Enterprise Data & Analytics Architect II or Assistant Director to design, govern, and evolve the enterprise analytics architecture. You will lead warehouse/lakehouse architecture, data products, semantic layers, and metrics governance, partnering with engineering, BI, and data science to standardize patterns and accelerate delivery.

Role requires 8+ years in data & analytics architecture, hands-on cloud platform experience (Databricks/Snowflake),

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data & analytics architecture in a global, multi-business unit setting.
• 8+ years hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data and analytics architecture blueprints, vision, principles, and target states.
• Ensure data ecosystem aligns with enterprise strategy, capabilities, and operating models.
• Collaborate to mature health of data and analytics capabilities for the enterprise.
• Design analytics solutions on cloud data platforms for BI and self-service analytics.
• Own the analytics architecture roadmap and decommission plans aligned to business priorities.
• Define reference architectures, standards, and guardrails; guide analytics modeling and consumption patterns.
• Guide teams on Snowflake SQL, notebooks, and compute patterns; support multi-BI platforms.
• Govern semantic layers and governed metrics; enable analytics data products on Databricks/Snowflake.

Skills

Databricks

Snowflake

SQL

Data modeling

Semantic layers

Governance

Cloud analytics

Architecture leadership

BI and self-service analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree etc.

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Principal Global Investors is seeking a Senior Enterprise Data & Analytics Architect II or Assistant Director to design, govern, and evolve the enterprise analytics architecture. You will lead warehouse/lakehouse architecture, data products, semantic layers, and metrics governance, partnering with engineering, BI, and data science to standardize patterns and accelerate delivery.

Role requires 8+ years in data & analytics architecture, hands-on cloud platform experience (Databricks/Snowflake),