Principal Architect, Data

📋 Description

• Act as the senior technical referent for complex Data engagements, owning key architecture
• Work directly with clients to understand their business requirements, data landscape, and technical
• Define architectures across data platforms, pipelines, modeling, integration, governance, security
• Remain a hands-on technical practitioner, supporting engineering teams with complex implementation
• Develop estimates around the skills, resources, and timelines required to deliver Zencore
• Partner closely with Data Engineers, Cloud Architects, and AI/ML teams to design solutions that

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data architectures in complex cloud
• Strong hands-on experience with the Google Cloud data ecosystem, particularly BigQuery.
• Advanced SQL skills and strong experience with Python.
• Strong experience with modern data engineering and orchestration technologies such as dbt, Airflow
• Experience designing scalable data platforms, pipelines, data models, and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, quality, lineage, and observability.

🎁 Benefits

• We Are Trusted Experts: Our teams bring deep, hands-on experience to solve the hardest cloud and AI
• We Value Candor: We share unbiased opinions and aren't afraid of hard truths—our clients view us as
• We Are the Missing Link: We connect our enterprise clients directly to Google Cloud innovation
• We Remove Uncertainty: We bring structured playbooks that eliminate risk from complex cloud
• We Show Empathy: We build lasting client trust because we understand the real-world operational