Principal Data Architect

The role

You will serve as the senior technical authority for data architecture, setting standards for warehouses, lakes, and data foundations for AI/ML. You will partner with leadership and clients on data strategy, mentor engineers, and own high-stakes decisions on platform direction.

What you will do

• Set the standard for data architecture across warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse environments
• Design for data and AI governance, including lineage, quality, and access control
• Define vision and direction for batch and streaming data systems and orchestration
• Champion enterprise data modeling strategy across various paradigms
• Own the architecture of data foundations for AI/ML at scale
• Architect semantic layers, knowledge graphs, and unstructured data pipelines
• Drive infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability standards
• Champion performance, scalability, cost, and reliability optimization
• Own security, governance, and compliance posture across data assets
• Prototype, write production code, and review designs and pull requests

Required qualifications

• Partner with senior leadership and clients on data strategy
• Support pre-sales by shaping solution approaches, scoping, and estimates
• Communicate complex data architecture concepts to engineering and executive stakeholders
• Define and champion architectural standards and best practices
• Build reusable accelerators, reference architectures, and templates
• Mentor experienced engineers and architects
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools and patterns

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)/RRSP Matching to eligible employees

Before you apply

• An offer of employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check

About the company

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. They design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations.