Principal Infrastructure Architect: Data Platform

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As a Principal Infrastructure Architect on our Infrastructure Architecture team, you will be the architecture team's partner to ZoomInfo's data engineering organization. Data engineering owns the platforms and the products built on them. You bring the infrastructure patterns, evaluation rigor, and cross-team alignment that help them build and run those platforms well on GCP.

Responsibilities

• Establish infrastructure patterns for data workloads
• Design and maintain reference patterns for provisioning and operating the data platforms ZoomInfo runs
• Build the data paved road
• Establish performance, cost, and observability patterns
• Evaluate new technologies
• Bring managed data services inside the perimeter
• Support data consolidation and governance efforts
• Prototype and hand off
• Participate in architecture review
• Enable teams

Requirements

• Influence and communication
• Cloud infrastructure foundation
• Hands-on data infrastructure experience at scale
• Depth in at least two data domains, fluency across the rest
• Performance and cost engineering
• Development and operational depth
• Technology evaluation

Nice to Have

• Supported a lakehouse or data mesh migration from the infrastructure side
• Implemented data classification, residency, or privacy/compliance controls at the infrastructure layer
• Run graph or distributed SQL databases in production
• Know the infrastructure demands of AI/ML data workloads
• Built or applied AI-augmented developer or architecture workflows
• Run or participated in an Architecture Review Council or equivalent governance body