Principal Architect, EDT Cloud Data – Analytics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Take charge of operational excellence, security, and reliability for the enterprise data and analytics platform on Azure.

• Design, implement, and manage Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for automated building, testing, and deployment processes.

• Ensure high service availability through effective workflow management, promotion processes, and pipeline operations.

• Implement and oversee Terraform-based infrastructure as code across all environments.

• Manage end-to-end environment provisioning, including workspaces, compute resources, storage, networking, and access controls.

• Oversee platform security, RBAC, access control, secrets management, identity integration, and least-privilege controls across Azure data services.

• Monitor and operate the platform with an SRE mindset, encompassing alerting, performance tuning, capacity management, incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive automation.

• Monitor and enhance integration runtimes and platform services; troubleshoot runtime and pipeline issues to uphold SLAs.

• Collaborate with Data Platform and Data Product teams to design and operationalize scalable enterprise data solutions.

• Work with the internal D&A team to assess data needs and establish priorities.

• Evaluate and manage relationships with external data and analytics vendors.

• Define and operationalize enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and architecture review processes.

• Influence technical design decisions, review ongoing solutions, identify architectural risks, and drive remediation efforts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline.

• At least 8 years of experience in cloud engineering, data warehousing, data engineering, or enterprise data and analytics platforms.

• Minimum of 4 years managing platform security and applying Azure data service security practices in enterprise settings.

• Hands-on experience in architecture and engineering for designing and building enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and cloud solutions.

• Proficiency with Azure Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows/DLT, ADLS Gen2, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Key Vault, modern data engineering practices, and Power BI.

• Experience in designing and managing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines across various environments.

• Proficient in implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

• Experience operating enterprise cloud data platforms, including monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, troubleshooting, incident management, and reliability enhancement.

• Familiarity with defining and operationalizing enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and architecture review processes.

• Knowledge of implementing data security, privacy, and access controls in regulated environments, including GxP, HIPAA, and PII/PHI requirements.

• Proven ability to influence technical design decisions across engineering teams.

• A Master's degree is preferred.

• Azure analytics or cloud certification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility to work remotely.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunity.

• Travel requirement of 10%.