ZoomInfo Technologies LLC
Principal Data Engineer
Remote-US · Principal
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About the role
- We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life.
- You'll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins.
- With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won't just contribute.
Responsibilities
- Lead Data Architecture and System Design
- Design end-to-end data systems spanning batch and streaming ingestion, transformation, data modeling, storage, orchestration, serving layers, and consumption patterns.
- Make and document high-quality architecture decisions, including tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, scalability, latency, security, maintainability, and cost.
- Lead technical design reviews for high-impact initiatives and provide clear, constructive direction on implementation approaches.
- Identify architectural risks early and drive plans to mitigate technical debt, single points of failure, data inconsistency, and operational fragility.
- Build a culture of data reliability by implementing standards for data contracts, schema management, lineage, observability, freshness, completeness, accuracy, and reconciliation.
- Develop practical engineering guardrails that enable teams to move quickly without sacrificing quality, trust, or operational excellence.
- Drive Technical Decision-Making
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, platform technologies, and vendor capabilities using clear criteria and documented recommendations.
- Create and maintain architecture decision records, reference architectures, roadmaps, and technical standards that provide clarity across teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years designing and operating large-scale data platforms, distributed data systems, or enterprise-grade data products.
- Deep experience with modern data architecture concepts, such as lakehouse or warehouse platforms, batch and streaming processing, data modeling, orchestration, metadata management, and data governance.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one general-purpose programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or similar.
- Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong knowledge of data modeling practices across analytical, operational, and domain-oriented use cases.
- Experience establishing engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code, reliability, and security.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with cloud-native data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience implementing data mesh, domain-oriented data product, or self-service platform patterns.
- Required
- Demonstrated expertise in end-to-end system design, including defining requirements, evaluating tradeoffs, designing resilient architectures, and delivering production systems.
- Proven ability to lead technical decisions across multiple teams without relying on direct authority.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across an organization.
- Preferred
Skills
- ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate.
Compensation
- Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate's work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training.
Benefits
- Own the technical vision and architecture for scalable, resilient, and cost-effective data platforms and pipelines.
- Drive adoption of well-defined SLIs, SLOs, alerting, runbooks, and post-incident learning practices for critical data products.
Company info
- ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation.
- Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller.
- ZoomInfo is committed to protecting your privacy when you apply for jobs with us.
- ZoomInfo may use a software-based assessment as part of the recruitment process.
- More information about this tool, including the results of the most recent bias audit, is available <a href="https://www.zoo
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