Principal Infrastructure Architect: Data Platform

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and maintain infrastructure patterns for data platforms (streaming, databases, analytical stores, search, pipeline orchestration, Apache Iceberg) as Terraform modules and GitOps workflows
• ▹Define CI/CD and GitOps patterns for data jobs and pipelines together with platform and data engineering
• ▹Establish performance, cost and observability patterns plus monitoring, alerting and SLO practices
• ▹Help data teams adopt the patterns, review their designs and work through hard infrastructure trade-offs
• ▹Run POCs of new data technologies and vendor offerings and write recommendations for engineering leaders
• ▹Take a full share of the architecture team's general work: weekly architecture reviews, standards, ADRs and infrastructure consulting

Requirements

• ▹Cloud, Kubernetes, networking and infrastructure-as-code foundation
• ▹Hands-on depth in data systems to be credible with the engineers who run them
• ▹Real depth in some areas of the data estate and the ability to build depth in others
• ▹Leadership and communication skills: patterns are adopted without positional authority

Soft skills

About the company

ZoomInfo is a fast-moving company with an ambitious culture that backs its people's careers.