Principal Data Architect (AI)

Location: Remote within the USA

Company

hirify.global provides human capital management solutions covering HR, payroll, benefits, workforce management, talent management, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

What you will do

• Architect and govern data structures, classifications, flows, lineage, integrity, and cleanliness across the full data lifecycle.
• Design and evolve medallion architecture, data mesh, data cubes, materialized views, dimensional models, semantic layers, and data warehouses.
• Architect and optimize pipelines using Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Hightouch, Airflow, PySpark, Python, and SQL.
• Define data governance, access controls, cataloging, metadata, master data management, retention, archival, and data-sharing practices.
• Partner with engineering, platform, integrations, product, analytics, security, compliance, and customer-facing stakeholders.
• Document architecture standards and mentor engineers on data best practices while evaluating AI-driven development and automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10–15 years of related experience across big data, data warehousing, data science, or data analytics.
• Strong Databricks experience, preferably on Azure, with expert SQL and hands-on PySpark and Python skills.
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Git, GitHub Actions, Airflow or equivalent orchestration, and data modeling using star and snowflake schemas.
• Experience with data governance, cataloging, data quality, privacy, and compliance for HR and payroll data, including PII, SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA.
• Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills, including customer-facing and executive-level engagement.

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform, Azure infrastructure, Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Great Expectations, or dbt tests.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, Kafka, Event Hubs, Snowflake Secure Data Sharing, or Databricks Delta Sharing.
• Experience with Parabola.io, Workato, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, HDFS, YARN, or Spark.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role designated for candidates in the USA.
• Work involves cross-functional collaboration across data engineering, platform, integrations, product management, analytics, security, and compliance.
• hirify.global operates as an equal opportunity employer and provides disability accommodations.