Principal Data Architect (GCP)

Location: Remote

Salary: $195,000–$270,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing engineering and technology company that helps clients use Google Cloud, Salesforce, and data platforms to drive business impact.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable Data Lakehouse solutions on GCP using BigQuery, GCS, BigLake, and Dataplex.
• Translate customer business goals, data challenges, and technical requirements into architectural blueprints and delivery plans.
• Design real-time and batch data ingestion pipelines with orchestration and streaming frameworks.
• Establish practices for data cataloging, metadata, lineage, data quality, security, access control, and governance.
• Serve as technical lead for project teams by mentoring engineers, reviewing solutions, and ensuring architectural consistency.
• Advise clients and stakeholders on trade-offs, scalability, solution adoption, and long-term maintainability while contributing to POCs, pipeline work, and performance tuning.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of progressive experience in software engineering and data platform development, including 5+ years architecting data platforms on GCP and/or Databricks.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying Data Lakehouse platforms, data products, and medallion architectures.
• Strong knowledge of real-time and batch ingestion, ETL/ELT pipeline design, and orchestration with tools such as Airflow and Pub/Sub.
• Expertise in data modeling, storage optimization, partitioning, and performance tuning for large-scale analytical workloads.
• Experience with data governance, security, and cataloging solutions such as Dataplex, Data Catalog, and IAM.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead mixed teams and engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and hybrid GCP–Databricks architectures.
• Curiosity to explore new technologies and the ability to move between architecture discussions and code-level troubleshooting.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work environment.
• Health insurance and paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
• Parental and bereavement leave.
• 401(k) employer match.
• Employee referral bonuses.
• Standard hiring verification may include background and employment checks; AI tools may support parts of the hiring process, with final decisions made by people.