Principal Data Architect

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Job Details Position Summary The Principal Data Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and optimizing the enterprise data architecture that supports analytics, operational data needs, AI/ML capabilities, and strategic business objectives.

This role ensures data is structured, integrated, secured, and governed in a way that maximizes usability and value across the organization.

As a key contributor within the Data, Analytics & AI Architecture and Strategy Office, you will set architecture direction, create reusable patterns and canonical models, and guide multi‑domain, cross‑platform implementations.

You will partner with executives, product leaders, data engineering, analytics, security, and data governance teams to modernize the data ecosystem (e. g. , lakehouse, data mesh/fabric, streaming, data products), shorten time‑to‑insight, and enable AI/ML at scale.

You will own critical architectural artifacts, proof‑of‑concepts, and reference implementations for mission‑critical initiatives, and mentor architects and engineers across the organization.

This role is instrumental in establishing the building blocks of the organization’s data ecosystem—data domains, data products, semantic layers, metadata frameworks, and data quality controls—while helping evolve the organization toward modern patterns such as data fabric, data mesh, and cloud‑native lakehouse platforms.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities Data Architecture & Modeling Conduct current‑state assessments and define transition architectures to reach the target state with measurable milestones and risk mitigation. Own conceptual, l