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# Astronomer Architect - Apache Airflow

- **Company:** Northern Base
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Octopus Deploy, OpenID, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Prometheus, Cloudera, Runbook, Workflow Management Systems, Policy as Code, Data Logging, Statsd, System Availability, Snowflake, Grafana, Apache Spark, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Electronic Medical Records, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Management, Terraform, Amazon Redshift, Databricks
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us1ae3ba22cd7094e46565787dffa0c6fa

## About the Role

Must-Have Skills:
Apache Airflow Architecture, Administration & Production Support
Airflow on Kubernetes
Airflow DAG Design, Testing & Optimization
Python Development, Custom Operators & Hooks
Kubernetes, Helm Charts & Container Orchestration
Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
GitOps, Argo CD / Flux & CI/CD Pipelines
Airflow High Availability, Upgrades & Performance Tuning
Observability Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, StatsD & Centralized Logging
Workflow Reliability, Idempotency, Retries & Backfills
Dynamic Task Mapping, Deferrable Operators & Sensors
AWS / Azure / GCP Cloud Platforms
Data Platforms: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Spark, EMR / Dataproc
Security: SSO / OIDC, RBAC, Secrets Management & IAM
Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis & Runbook Automation
Enterprise-Scale Workflow Orchestration & Platform Engineering
Preferred Experience:
Airflow Migration and Multi-Scheduler Ecosystems
OpenLineage, Marquez & Data Quality Frameworks
dbt Core / Cloud Orchestration
Multi-Region High Availability, Disaster Recovery & Backup Strategies
Cost Optimization and Scheduler / Worker Capacity Planning
Internal Developer Platforms and Self-Service Pipeline Tooling
Apache Airflow Contributions and Airflow 2.7+ Features
Policy as Code: OPA, Gatekeeper & Conftest
Strong Cross-Functional Collaboration, Technical Leadership & Mentoring
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.