Principal Architect, Cloud Data

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What if your curiosity could redefine the future?

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Principal Architect, Cloud Data

We have an opportunity for a Principal Architect, Cloud Data to join our Software Architecture team in North America, reporting to the VP of Architecture. In this pivotal role, you will play a pivotal role in leading our data analytics technology and innovation strategy, focusing on cutting-edge areas like generative AI and machine learning to drive significant business benefits. You're the ideal candidate if you're a customer-obsessed, strategic thinker who is driven to take ownership, deliver business outcomes, and collaborate across teams.

Be a Contributor - What You'll Do

• Evaluate long-term technological investments, prioritizing them based on feasibility and their alignment with business needs
• Lead and execute large-scale machine learning projects that deliver measurable benefits to the business
• Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-functional data analytics projects
• Champion the design and implementation of high-performance data pipelines and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes
• Collaborate closely with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to improve data quality, build robust data warehouses, and develop powerful predictive models
• Mentor fellow engineers, sharing your expertise on designing and operating reliable distributed systems at scale

Be Prepared - What You Bring

• 20+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven experience in analytics, AI/ML including generative AI, and real time data processing
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
• Proficiency in ETL orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Dagster) with deep expertise in SQL, PySpark, or Scala
• Experience working with at least one major cloud suite (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and application performance characteristics
• Demonstrated track record of designing and developing data architecture and engineering solutions for massive data volumes
• Proven ability to formulate solutions based on abstract information and translate them into actionable plans.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Be Successful - Your Path

First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors (Blox Buddies), and map the systems and meet with key stakeholders that rely on your work. Discuss and create short/long term goals.

Six Months: Play a key role in developing and/or modifying the data analytics strategy and roadmaps, leverage your understanding of the current ETL processes and data pipelines and drive complex, cross-functional data analytics projects.

One Year: Successfully build new capabilities that drive business outcomes, make significant progress on achieving a world-class service operation and identify analytics applications across several domains to develop integrated solutions.

Belong- Your Community

Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you'll grow and belong here.

Be Rewarded - Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong

• Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
• Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
• Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a "No Jerks" policy that keeps collaboration healthy
• Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
• Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
• We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect role location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position: $187,500 -$288,750 plus corporate bonus.

Ready to Be the Difference?

Infoblox is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis

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