Principal Data Architect (Data Mesh)

Location: Remote (United States)

Annual salary: $136,325–$212,175

Company

hirify.global is a Berkshire Hathaway company and a large U.S. auto insurer serving millions of customers nationwide.

What you will do

• Define the target-state enterprise data architecture using data mesh principles, including domain ownership, data products, self-serve infrastructure, and federated computational governance.
• Establish domain boundaries, ownership models, reference architectures, interfaces, schemas, contracts, SLAs/SLOs, metadata, lineage, quality controls, and access policies.
• Own a multi-year roadmap covering pilot domains, platform capabilities, legacy warehouse and lake migration, decommissioning, maturity measurement, and adoption.
• Design automated governance for security, privacy, quality, interoperability, cataloging, canonical models, and shared reference data.
• Chair architecture reviews, resolve cross-domain design decisions, mentor architects and senior engineers, and coach domain teams.
• Evaluate technologies, run proofs of concept, publish architecture decision records, and communicate the data architecture vision to executives and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• 12+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or platform architecture, including at least 3 years in a principal, staff, or enterprise architect role.
• Experience designing or leading a data mesh, data product, or domain-oriented data architecture, ideally including a production rollout.
• Deep knowledge of modern data stack patterns, including cloud data warehouses and lakehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift; open table formats such as Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi; streaming with Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming; and orchestration.
• Strong data modeling skills across dimensional, data vault, event-driven, and domain models, with judgment about when each model fits.
• Hands-on experience with data contracts, schema management, metadata and catalog tooling, lineage, data quality, and observability frameworks.
• Working knowledge of governance, security, and privacy architecture, including policy-as-code, fine-grained access control, and data classification.
• Ability to translate architecture into a roadmap and business case and gain support from executives and engineering leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining complex trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform—AWS, Azure, or GCP—and fluency in SQL plus Python, Scala, Java, or another general-purpose language.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States.
• hirify.global Pledge benefits include personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
• Inclusive and collaborative culture focused on shared success, innovation, and integrity.
• Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility supporting employee well-being and long-term development.
• hirify.global will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization.