Principal Software Engineer - Data Engineering

Sprouts Farmers Market•Phoenix, AZ

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

Provide technical leadership across teams within an assigned data platform or data-product domain. Own technical objectives and roadmaps with a timeframe of at least one year, contribute technical input to department planning, and lead major data initiatives involving detailed analysis, work delegation, and review. The role reports to our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday.

Requirements

7+ years of data engineering experience with cross-team technical leadership.
Advanced knowledge of Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, or equivalent technologies.
Experience with Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, or equivalent lakehouse technologies.
Experience designing batch and streaming architectures using Kafka or equivalent.
Experience with data governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract practices.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture documentation.

Nice To Haves

Experience with data mesh, data products, feature stores, or real-time decisioning.
Experience with vector stores and retrieval-augmented generation data pipelines.
Retail or merchandising domain familiarity.

Responsibilities

Develop and recommend data engineering standards, patterns, and reference architectures for the assigned department or business unit.
Lead major and complex initiatives involving ingestion, transformation, streaming, serving, and feature-store capabilities.
Develop and implement governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract standards for assigned platforms and related data domains.
Present technical recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders and gain agreement on shared approaches.
Lead lakehouse, data-product, and real-time decisioning initiatives within the assigned domain.
Define resilient source-adapter patterns, including schema-drift quarantine, versioning, and replay after remediation.
Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to engineers and review work products for major initiatives.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
Vacation accrual plan
Opportunities for career growth
15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
Flexible schedules
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
Company paid life insurance
Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
Health Savings Account with company match
Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
Company paid short-term disability coverage
Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
Paid holidays
DailyPay - access earned wages the next business day