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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Data Architect-Remote - **Company:** UNFI - **Location:** Providence, RI, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $131,400.0 - $253,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Third Normal Form, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Masking, Data Systems, Data Vault Modeling, Identity and Access Management, Systems Analysis, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Cloud Services, SAP (Applications), SAP Business Suiteing, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP NetWeaver Data Management, Search Technologies, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Data Classification, Apache Spark, State Machines, Data Layers, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, Machine Learning Operations, Cloudwatch, Data Pipelines, Databricks - **Published:** June 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=470b4355399951fb ## About the Role Do you have experience in Technical documentation?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Education/ Certifications: * Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related study. Experience: * 10+ years in data architecture, including 5+ years designing at enterprise scale in cloud data platforms. * Hands-on expertise with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouses, Spark, DLT/Workflows, ML Stack) and AWS core services (S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR or MSK/Kinesis, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch). * Strong data modeling experience across operational, analytical, and semantic layers: 3NF, data vault, dimensional/star, and data product contract design with tools like Erwin, ER Studio. * Proven track record building resilient streaming and batch data pipelines with performance tuning, cost optimization, and observability. * Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP Datasphere) and SAP data integration (ODP/SLT, CDS views, BTP services), or prior SAP BW/ERP data models. Knowledge/Skills/Abilities * Deep understanding of governance, security, and privacy: RBAC/ABAC, PII handling, masking/tokenization, retention, lineage, and access approvals. * Presentation skills that include all levels within organization * Excellent stakeholder engagement; ability to convert business outcomes into clear architecture options and trade-offs; strong documentation and standards leadership. * Familiarity with ML/AI on Databricks (Feature Store, Model Serving, vector search) and MLOps patterns (CI/CD, model lineage, governance). * Exceptional interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation * Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available. ## Description The Principal IT Solutions Data Architect leads end-to-end data architecture on AWS, leveraging Databricks for computing, governance, and platform evolution, defines data product patterns, domain models, and best practices, partnering with engineering, analytics, security, and business teams to deliver resilient, high-performance, governed data solutions., Enterprise Architecture * Own the enterprise data architecture vision and roadmap across batch, streaming, ML, and BI workloads on AWS + Databricks. * Establish reference architectures, canonical models, and standards for medallion/Lakehouse design (Bronze/Silver/Gold), Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and data product contracts. * Lead design for high throughput ingestion (CDC, streaming, file, API) and domain data products (supply chain, commercial, finance) with SLOs for freshness, quality, and cost. * Define governance-by-design: data classification, lineage, access patterns (attribute- and purpose-based), privacy, retention, and audit using Unity Catalog and AWS services. * Architect scalable, cost-efficient processing: autoscaling clusters/SQL warehouses, optimized Delta design (Z-Order, OPTIMIZE, clustering), photon-aware pipelines, job orchestration. * Drive interoperability with SAP: define patterns for SAP extract/CDC (e.g., ODP, SLT, SDI), model alignment with SAP Business Data Cloud/Datasphere, and harmonized semantics. * Design and review near real-time data flows (Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Live Tables, Auto Loader, Kafka/Kinesis/MSK) for operational analytics and event-driven use cases. * Champion data quality/observability: great expectations/Deque, Delta expectations, lineage, and SLAs with incident management and FinOps guardrails. * Partner with InfoSec to implement platform security: IAM, Lakehouse permissions, token/secret management, private networking, encryption, and data masking tokenization patterns. * Collaborate with analytics and data science to productionable features, ML/AI workloads, and vector/semantic search where appropriate, ensuring reproducibility and MLOps readiness. 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