G-P - Software Architect - Data Platform

Remote - India (Remote-First)3w ago

Remote Principal APAC Cloud Computing Data Analytics Software Architect SQL Governance Reporting Team Leadership Databricks

Requirements

• Data Architecture Experience: Extensive data architecture background driving architectural and design decisions in Cloud data platforms within software-centric organizations. Strong Data Modeling and Governance experience. • Data Platforms: Strong Databricks experience (or another lakehouse platform based on Spark) • Data Platforms: • Technical Proficiency: Proven hands-on capability with the modern data stack and a history of building/designing complex technical solutions. Expertise in developing solutions with SQL and PySpark. • Technical Proficiency: • AI Skills: Experience with using agentic AI in the SDLC for efficiency gains, and using GenAI in data workloads as a tool for data analysis. • Data Design Skills: Proven ability to design data schemas for analytics and reporting consumption. • Analytical & Data Skills: Demonstrated ability to structure and process qualitative/quantitative data to evaluate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and make sound technology trade-off decisions. • Communication & Leadership: Effective communicator with a proven ability to explain complex technical concepts and gain buy-in for architectural strategies across cross-functional teams. • Communication & Leadership: • Problem Solving: Ability to thrive in unstructured or ambiguous environments, conceptualizing and designing creative solutions to complex technical challenges. • Problem Solving: • Cloud & Domain Expertise: Focused experience in one or more of the following: Security and Access Control, Cloud Operations & Infrastructure, or 3rd-Party Integrations. • Cloud & Domain Expertise: • Industry Experience: Minimum of 15 years in the software industry, with a minimum of 3 years in an architecture position • Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience architecting on major public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). • Cloud Platforms: • Serverless: Experience with developing and supporting serverless workloads on a public cloud platform. • Serverless: • Security Standards: Deep knowledge of modern infrastructure security protocols, data privacy compliance, and access control frameworks. • Security Standards: • Developer Enablement: Track record of active involvement in developer enablement, engineering mentorship, and promoting continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) best practices. • Our ranges are established using objective market benchmarking data for this level of work. Final placement within the range is determined by gender-neutral criteria, including the candidate's relevant skills, experience, and specific qualifications for the role. • Actual compensation for this position may vary and will depend on multiple factors such as relevant qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. For Full-Time Regular Employees, this position is also eligible for additional compensation as follows: • Sales Roles: This position is eligible for a commission structure in addition to base salary. • Non-Sales Roles: This position is eligible for an annual bonus which is paid dependent on various factors, including and without limitation, individual and company performance in addition to base salary.

Responsibilities

• Target-State Architecture: Design and drive the execution of a scalable, cloud-native target-state architecture across the end-to-end software platform. • Target-State Architecture: • Ingestion architecture: Define architectural patterns for scalable automated data ingestion • Ingestion architecture: • Hands-on Execution & PoCs: Deliver hands-on proof-of-concepts (PoCs) alongside engineering teams using SQL, PySpark, Serverless Python or other platform languages to validate design decisions. • Hands-on Execution & PoCs: • Governance & Consistency: Drive architecture consistency across all platform components to harmonize integration, maximize component reuse, and eliminate technical debt. Act as an SME for data governance designs and implementation. • Governance & Consistency: • Security & Compliance: Define and enforce data platform security standards and infrastructure security to prevent platform and data breaches. • Security & Compliance: • Product & Business Alignment: Partner with Product Management to define our application analytics strategy and gain a deep business understanding of aligned domain areas. • Product & Business Alignment: • Technology Innovation: Serve as the strategic sounding board for validating and introducing new technologies, open-source solutions, and 3rd-party applications. • Technology Innovation: • System Reliability: Ensure system and infrastructure architecture design results in high availability, low latency, and minimal service outages as a core measure of success. • System Reliability: • Engineering Excellence: Evangelize architectural best practices, educate engineering teams, and advocate for continuous improvement and developer enablement. • Engineering Excellence: • AIDLC Contribution: Contribute to our AI-Powered agentic development capabilities as they relate to the data platform, data transformation and analytics. • AIDLC Contribution:

Benefits

• G-P values its employees and offers excellent benefits and perks including generous paid parental leave, flexible time off, spending accounts, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, sabbatical after 5 years and more. • Individuals residing, or applying to work, in the United States: California or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, please review the following additional information:G-P will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles City Fair Chance Act Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Act Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Act Ordinance. Los Angeles applicants can review additional information regarding the Los Angeles City Fair Chance Act here: Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Philadelphia applicants can review information pertaining to Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance here: Fair Chance Poster. Any consideration of a candidate’s background check with arrest or conviction records will include an individualized assessment based on the factors required by applicable law, including the candidate’s specific record and the duties and requirements of the specific job. • United States: California or Philadelphia • Pennsylvania, • G-P. Global Made Possible.