Data Principal Engineer
Tasks
- Automate governance telemetry and onboarding tooling
- Build real time event driven data layer
- Build self service onboarding tooling
- Create AI assisted copilots to reduce manual work
- Create architecture repository for data flows
- Define data contracts and security guardrails
- Define data governance documentation requirements
- Deliver technical training modules
- Design master data architecture blueprint
- Develop structured technical onboarding paths
- Enable AI consumption with semantic layers and schemas
- Establish data quality and lineage standards
- Integrate AI tooling with governed connection patterns
- Provide technical mentorship and coaching
- Set technical standards and resolve design disagreements
- Simplify data architecture ecosystem
- Standardize technology choices across teams
Perks/Benefits
- N/A
Skills/Tech-stack
BigQuery | CI/CD | Cloud platform | DBT | Data Contracts | Data Governance | Data Lineage | Data Processing | Data Quality | Dataform | Dimensional Modeling | Event Driven | Event-driven architecture | Google Cloud | Google Cloud Platform | Infrastructure as Code | Kafka | LookML | Looker | Pub/Sub | Python | SQL | Streaming Data | Streaming data processing | Terraform | “as-code”
Roles
Architect | Data Architect | Data Engineer | Data Platform | Data Platform Engineer | Engineer | Platform Engineer
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