Senior Principal Big Data Architect

About the team

Are you looking for an opportunity to help millions of customers navigate one of the biggest life decisions they'll ever make? Zillow's mission is to give people the power to unlock life's next chapter. We work with Designers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Researchers to solve complex engineering problems and build products that transform the real estate industry. Our Product Teams are tasked with finding solutions to bridge the gap between you and your next address by delivering end-to-end experiences for customers actively shopping, renting, touring, or financing their home. Our Teams are also working to solve difficult problems for real estate agents in the field by providing industry leading platforms and tooling.

We maintain our competitive edge by making data driven decisions that we evolve through rapid testing and iteration to ensure we are launching enjoyable experiences to the world’s largest online real estate marketplace. We are not done yet. Our goal is to achieve Zillow 2.0, which will deliver seamlessly comprehensive solutions for buyers, sellers, and agents transacting with all the services Zillow provides. And, we need your help to do it!

About the role

As a Senior Principal Data Architect you will lead data architecture practice and represent Data Engineering at the enterprise level. The Data Engineering (DE) team is building the new generation of a Data Platform to enable implementation of Data Mesh principles and drastically improve time to value for all engineers who work with data. This work requires proven expertise in big data combined with a never ending ability to learn and evolve your thinking.

You will facilitate cross-team collaboration for defining and building enterprise data management architecture from principals to tools, oversee cross-functional adoption of new architecture, and enable a new level of engineering efficiency when working with data.
 

You will get to: 

• Defining enterprise data architecture for data platform
• Working with Platform team on building platform functionality and with data engineers on adoption of platform functionality
• Influencing and educating whole team on topics of modern data architecture
• Shape data lakehouse data models and bring it to performant physical models specifically tailored to chosen storage format and data tech stack
• Advance best DE architecture practices with focus on performance, scalability, security, enabling future capabilities and resilience. Drive and communicate architecture decisions across the Zillow Data Ecosystem.
• Create cohesive architecture practices across DE producing standard methodologies and reference architecture that the team can leverage. 
• Create consensus and alignment on technology choices, data formats and data flows and provide guidance to teams on new technologies and future technical investments. 
• Create alignment with product teams on technical vision and long term product vision. 
• Represent the DE architecture in the Enterprise Architecture Group 

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York and Washington the standard base pay range for this role is $221,800.00 - $354,200.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York and Washington and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• You have built data platforms and solutions, accumulated enough experience to know how to solve non-trivial challenges for a non-trivial business and how to shape enterprise data systems into a cohesive enterprise data management platform.
• You can demonstrate successful projects related to data systems at medium and large size companies in leading architecture roles
• Experience mentoring engineers and oversee project execution and delivery for adhering to blueprints and architecture principles. 
• You are designing enterprise systems and processes that span org structures and levels, inspire with your strong and robust vision and technical leadership
• Previous experience leading technical organizations through change in leading data