JOB SUMMARY We are seeking a hands-on Principal Data Architect to serve as a leader in our ongoing data and digital transformation, leveraging a modern open data ecosystem build on foundational iceberg lakehouse patterns for both humans and AI to thrive. This role will own defining and delivering our enterprise strategy and architectural approach towards data movement [including integration and interoperability], Enrichment, and Orchestration. This scope will span the full enterprise of a complex hybrid ecosystem: We are not a skunkworks team just trying out new technology and you will make our implementations with dbt, airflow, kafka, and iceberg real for a $30B+ company impacting millions of lives across the country. Not only will this person be a leader of our rapid modernization but will insistently keep a business and customer first mentality. The right leader understands the efficiencies and innovations needed to transform will also couple with deprecating a number of existing operational/legacy platforms. We require a natural thought leader and strategic advisor, shaping and driving the evolution of complex architectures across multiple domains, necessitating tradeoffs on time, cost, and complexity, but never trading off the positive experiences and impacts to our members. Success in this role requires experience driving adoption of best practices and emerging technologies (ie lakehouse, iceberg, ELT vs ETL, and open source trends and tradeoffs), driving innovation and continuous improvement across the organization (teaching and mentoring is a passion for this person), and understanding the evolution of the space and patterns to make decisions that set the company and teams up for success short, mid, and long-term (ie you know what’s ready for exploration vs what’s ready for enterprise scale).