KION Group · 1 week ago
Principal Data Architect
Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$134K/yr - $179K/yr
15+ years expKION Group is seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Principal Data Architect who has extensive experience building enterprise scale data platforms. This role demands a profound understanding of the data engineering landscape, where the ideal candidate will lead data engineering teams and actively contribute to platform development.
Industrial Engineering
Responsibilities
As the sole hands-on enterprise data architect, you will be responsible for ideation, architecture, design and development of new enterprise data platform
You will collaborate with other cloud and security architects to ensure seamless alignment within our overarching technology strategy
Architect and design core components with a microservices architecture, abstracting platform, and infrastructure intricacies
Create and maintain essential data platform SDKs and libraries, adhering to industry best practices
Design and develop connector frameworks and modern connectors to source data from disparate systems both on-prem and cloud
Design and optimize data storage, processing, and querying performance for large-scale datasets using industry best practices while keeping costs in check
Architect and design the best security patterns and practices
Design and develop data quality frameworks and processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data
Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and cross functional teams to design data models, database schemas and data storage solutions
Design and develop advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities on the data platform
Design and develop observability and data governance frameworks and practices
Stay up to date with the latest data engineering trends, technologies, and best practices
Drive the deployment and release cycles, ensuring a robust and scalable platform
Qualification
Required
15+ of proven experience in modern data engineering, broader data landscape experience and exposure and solid software engineering experience
Prior experience architecting and building successful enterprise scale data platforms in a green field environment is a must
Proficiency in building end to end data platforms and data services in GCP is a must
Proficiency in tools and technologies: BigQuery, SQL, Python, Spark, DBT, Airflow, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker
Solid experience designing and developing distributed microservices based data architectures
Proficiency in architecting and designing and development experience with batch and real time streaming infrastructure and workloads
Proficiency with IoT architectures
Solid experience with architecting and implementing metadata management including data catalogues, data lineage, data quality and data observability for big data workflows
Hands-on experience with GCP ecosystem and data lakehouse architectures
Strong experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
Strong understanding of data modeling, data architecture, and data governance principles
Excellent experience with DataOps principles and test automation
Excellent experience with observability tooling: Grafana, Datadog
Previous experience working with engineers of all levels – Principal, Senior and Junior
Preferred
Experience with Data Mesh architecture
Experience building Semantic layers for data platforms
Experience building scalable IoT architectures
Benefits
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities
Company
KION Group
The KION Group sells forklift trucks, warehouse technology and associated services from its seven brand companies around the world.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2013-06-28IPO
Leadership Team
Christian Harm
CFO
Christian Dreyer
Senior Director Business Transformation & Network Management
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