Role: Principal Engineer/Architect Location: Remote Duration: Long Term Contract The Role We are looking for a Principal Engineer/Architect to help us build one of the most impactful Data & AI practices in the industry! You will have the opportunity to shape the future of the Data & AI landscape at leading Fortune 500 companies and cutting-edge startups. You will work on the industry’s most challenging customer engagements to solve Data & AI problems using leading cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP and Databricks. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the leading experts in the data and AI industry and develop a deep understanding of Databricks and adjacent technologies. You will be empowered to scope, negotiate, and lead complex data migration projects, develop data and AI best practices and thought leadership, and represent both clients at Industry forums and events. You will join a team of experts with the autonomy and flexibility to make quick decisions, forge your own paths, and adapt to the changing market and customers’ needs. What you will be doing 1. Lead our rapidly growing Data & AI practice 1. Hire, train and develop highly differentiated and diverse team of Data & AI experts 1. Work directly with end customers and lead enterprise scale Data & AI projects 1. Be the trusted behind-the-scenes SME who works to ensure success and delivery excellence across many engagements 1. Function as a force multiplier by enabling our customers with reusable tools and packaged solutions 1. Provide thought leadership in the areas of data engineering, data governance, data transformations, curation and data integration 1. Develop data architecture blueprints, patterns and frameworks that will enable reuse and standardization 1. Grow your practice by influencing sales deals and assist with scoping, solutioning and estimating effort 1. Lead efforts to develop reusable frameworks, accelerators, and internal product development The skills you will bring 1. Working knowledge of three common cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one. With Strong abilities to provide a firm point of view on core cloud platform capabilities, security, and best practices 1. Capable of designing and deploying highly performant end-to-end data architectures 1. Strong integration & automation implementation skills 1. Proven experience building reusable frameworks and packaged solutions for horizontal solutions (e.g. migrations, MLOps, observability) 1. Ability to identify, debug bottlenecks and significantly optimize slow running data pipelines 1. Experience migrating applications from legacy Hadoop or Data Warehouses to the cloud 1. Must have: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional Other nice to have skills: 1. You bring an uncompromising Growth mindset 1. Demonstrating prior Big 4 or proven consulting experience in strategy through execution projects is a plus 1. Experience leading and working with large Cloud Data Platforms, Cloud Data migration or Enterprise Information Management programs 1. You are highly motivated, creative in your approach to technical problems and know how to leverage both internal and external networks 1. You invest in keeping technical skills updated and are constantly looking for the next big challenge 1. You will bring both broad and deep knowledge in Data Engineering and can architect a solution by mapping a customer business problem to an end-to-end solution. 1. You are resourceful, confident and composed under pressure