{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3cfb1c16e3e2daa2f222f5cb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3cfb1c16e3e2daa2f222f5cb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3cfb1c16e3e2daa2f222f5cb","title":"Principal Data Platform Architect","description":"Why Join Us?\nWe explore ways to deliver new value, foster creativity, and reach beyond boundaries. We use drive and commitment to energize, engage, and inspire others. We do what is important and strive for continuous improvement, work with passion, and purpose. We act with mutual respect, communicate fearlessly, and collaborate to leverage our collective talents. At Riskonnect, we share this set of expectations and values. They guide us every day in every way. These values are more than words – they unite our organization and bring meaning and purpose to what we do.\n#pioneer #spark #focus #community\nThe Team\nTeamwork is the heart of Riskonnect. We thrive on collaboration, believing it's the key to our growth and innovation in risk management. We encourage feedback, offer advancement opportunities, and support continuous learning. Join us to experience a culture that values teamwork and embraces a collaborative mindset, where your success is our success.\nWhy This Role Matters\nRiskonnect is building a unified enterprise data platform that will power reporting, advanced analytics, connected risk intelligence, and AI across a portfolio of market-leading SaaS products. This role offers the opportunity to shape the architecture, standards, and technical direction of a platform that will become foundational to the company's next generation of products.\nThe Opportunity\nRiskonnect is seeking an experienced Principal Data Platform Architect to lead the technical architecture of our next-generation enterprise data platform.\nThis leader will own the ongoing evolution of Riskonnect's enterprise data platform. Building on an established architectural foundation, the Principal Data Platform Architect will refine architecture, engineering standards, and implementation patterns as the platform expands across multiple SaaS products. This role will ensure the platform remains scalable, secure, performant, and ready to support advanced analytics, Connected Risk Intelligence, and future AI capabilities.\nWorking closely with Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams, this role will provide technical leadership for the ongoing evolution of Riskonnect's enterprise data platform. The Principal Data Platform Architect will drive architectural consistency across product teams, evolve shared platform capabilities and engineering standards, and help engineering organizations deliver trusted, secure, scalable, and AI-ready data solutions while preserving the flexibility required by individual SaaS products.\nThis is a hands-on architecture leadership role. The Principal Data Platform Architect will guide architecture decisions, mentor engineering teams, evaluate emerging technologies, and partner closely with product engineering to ensure successful delivery of enterprise data capabilities.\nThis role focuses on the architecture and evolution of Riskonnect's enterprise analytics, reporting, business intelligence, and AI data platform. While the platform ingests and transforms data from operational applications, the primary responsibility is defining the scalable data architecture, semantic models, governance, and engineering patterns that enable trusted analytics and AI across the Riskonnect portfolio. This role partners closely with product engineering teams but is not responsible for the design of transactional (OLTP) application architectures.\nSuccess in this role depends on enabling multiple autonomous engineering teams to deliver consistently through shared architecture, engineering standards, and technical leadership.\n\nEssential Functions / Responsibilities Include\nOwn the enterprise data platform architecture and long-term technical direction.\nEvolve and maintain enterprise standards for data ingestion, storage, transformation, semantic modeling, governance, security, and analytics.\nRefine and expand reusable architecture patterns and reference implementations across multiple SaaS product teams.\nPartner with Enterprise Architecture on roadmap and technology strategy.\nLead architecture for Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Lakehouse architecture, Bronze/Silver/Gold models, semantic models, Power BI, and AI-ready data services.\nEstablish architectural guidance for CDC, streaming, ELT, metadata, lineage, data quality, governance, and lifecycle management.\nLead enterprise logical and physical data modeling, including Star and Snowflake schemas.\nDesign scalable multi-tenant architectures supporting customer-specific schemas, custom fields, identity federation, Row-Level Security, and tenant isolation.\nDrive architectural governance by reviewing major solution designs, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards, and balancing consistency with product team autonomy.\nPartner across Product Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, Security, Analytics, and Customer Success.\nEnsure the platform enables future AI capabilities including RAG, semantic search, vector-ready architectures, and AI-ready datasets.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n12+ years designing enterprise data platforms.\n5+ years leading cloud data architecture.\nDeep expertise in dimensional data modeling and SQL.\nExperience with scalable SaaS architectures, CDC technologies, and large-scale data pipelines.\nStrong knowledge of cloud security, governance, and enterprise analytics platforms.\nAbility to influence cross-functional engineering teams without direct authority.\nExcellent communication skills with both technical and executive audiences.\n\nPreferred Experience\nMicrosoft Fabric\nOneLake\nPower BI\nAzure Data Services\nInformatica\nSalesforce\nSQL Server\nMySQL\nOracle\nAzure DevOps\nGitHub\nSalesforce Platform, including Data Cloud (Data 360), CRM Analytics, or enterprise analytics architectures on Salesforce\n\nSuccess in this Role\nMature the enterprise data platform for adoption across additional product teams.\nAccelerate delivery of trusted analytics, reporting, and AI capabilities through reusable platform services.\nImprove platform scalability, operational efficiency, governance, and cost optimization.\nReduce onboarding effort for new products and customer-specific configurations.\nAdvance the enterprise data architecture to support the next generation of Connected Risk Intelligence and AI capabilities.\n\nWHY JOIN RISKONNECT?\nAt Riskonnect, innovation starts with our people. We’re a fast-growing, global team of 1,500+ dedicated professionals who bring bold thinking, a collaborative mindset, and a shared commitment to helping organizations manage risk with confidence.\nYou’ll work alongside some of the most talented individuals in the industry, united by a purpose to help customers solve their most complex risk challenges through cutting-edge technology and world-class service.\nOur culture of excellence has earned us consistent recognition, including:\nBest and Brightest Companies to Work For (Nationwide) – 7 years\nBest and Brightest Elite Award Winner – 1 year\nBusiness Insurance Best Places to Work – 2 years\nGreat Place to Work® Certified – United Kingdom – 2 years\nGreat Place to Work® Certified – India – 1 year\nWe’re proud of these honors, but even more proud of the people who made them possible. Ready to be part of something meaningful? Join us.\n\nRiskonnect is an equal-opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. 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We’re a fast-growing, global team of 1,500+ dedicated professionals who bring bold thinking, a collaborative mindset, and a shared commitment to helping organizations manage risk with confidence.\nYou’ll work alongside some of the most talented individuals in the industry, united by a purpose to help customers solve their most complex risk challenges through cutting-edge technology and world-class service.\nOur culture of excellence has earned us consistent recognition, including:\nBest and Brightest Companies to Work For (Nationwide) – 7 years\nBest and Brightest Elite Award Winner – 1 year\nBusiness Insurance Best Places to Work – 2 years\nGreat Place to Work® Certified – United Kingdom – 2 years\nGreat Place to Work® Certified – India – 1 year\nWe’re proud of these honors, but even more proud of the people who made them possible. Ready to be part of something meaningful? Join us.\n\nRiskonnect is an equal-opportunity employer. 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