Principal Data Architect and Engineer
Position Overview
The Principal Data Architect/Engineer will lead the design, development, and evolution of HomeServe’s metadata-driven AWS Lakehouse platform, combining strategic architecture leadership with hands-on engineering expertise.
About the Role
Lead the ongoing evolution, optimization, and governance of HomeServe’s AWS-based enterprise Lakehouse platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Enhance and support existing metadata-driven ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks, improving performance, maintainability, observability, and developer productivity.
- Design, implement, and optimize batch and real-time data processing solutions leveraging AWS Glue, Lambda, Apache Iceberg (Amazon S3 Tables), Redshift, and related cloud-native services.
- Manage and continuously improve enterprise data governance and privacy capabilities, including PII tokenization, right-to-erase workflows, data lineage, and Lake Formation tag-based access controls.
- Establish and enforce architecture, engineering, and operational standards for a small data engineering team, promoting consistency, quality, and scalability across platform components.
- Drive adoption of DataOps and DevOps best practices, including CI/CD automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated data quality validation, and fully ephemeral environments for pull requests and feature branches.
- Develop and maintain operational runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes, serving as a technical escalation point and incident commander during critical platform events.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or relevant field, bachelor’s degree with an advanced degree preferred.
- Acts as a forward-deployed senior engineer and technical authority for the data platform who is embedded with business stakeholders, setting standards, leading design reviews, and growing the team.
- Development of automated deployment frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and reliable data platform releases.
- Implementation of comprehensive data validation, monitoring, and quality assurance processes to ensure data accuracy, consistency, completeness, and reliability.
Job Requirements
- Strong analytical, verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Willingness to travel is required.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions of the position for which they work. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to listen, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls while executing tasks like working on a computer or talking on the telephone. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to low.
Salary Range (Norwalk, CT)
$125,932.60 - $167,910.13 Annual