Principal Data Architect

Summary

Join Zencore, a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, as a Principal Architect, Data Solutions. This key leadership role requires significant Google Cloud experience and involves working directly with clients to understand their needs, develop cloud-based solutions, and deliver projects. You will act as a lead technical member of project teams, mentor other engineers, and contribute to the overall success of Zencore's professional services business. The position demands strong technical skills, experience with data engineering tools, and excellent communication abilities. Zencore offers a fully remote work environment and competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Ability to understand business problem, user requirements and ability to translate it into a technology vision and solution modules
• Ability to comfortably navigate between big picture and detailed thinking
• Experience in executing large scale business and technology change including key stakeholder management along the journey
• Experience working with common data engineering tools including DBT, Airflow, NiFi, Spark, etc
• Well versed in software development best practices
• Experience writing high-quality software. Preferably in Python or Java
• Strong analytical and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work with our clients to understand their requirements and technical challenges. Using this input you will develop solutions using cloud technology and evangelize the value of your solution to the client team
• Work with clients to develop estimates for the skills required and timelines to deliver Zencore projects. You should be able to turn these estimates into a clear proposal
• Act as the lead technical member of the project team. You are responsible for keeping the technical delivery on track and unblocking when things are stuck. While this is an architecture role we expect you to be a hands on practitioner; you should be comfortable doing both architecture and execution
• Act as a mentor inside of the engineering organizations. You are expected to be an expert in your technical domain, and you should be able to teach and enable others in order to up-skill the organization

Preferred Qualifications

Google Cloud Experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Fully remote company