Exel
Associate Principal Architect (Data and Analytics Platform)
Alameda, CA · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$182k-$259kDetected 13 days ago
PythonSQLRedshiftDatabricksAWSCloud PlatformsCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringSparkdbtCybersecurityComplianceProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementFDA RegulatoryResearchCollaboration
About the role
- SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: - No supervisory responsibilities.
- The base pay range for this position is $182,000 - $259,000 annually.
- The base pay range may take into account the candidate's geographic region, which will adjust the pay depending on the specific work location.
Responsibilities
- Supports the translation of overall direction and strategy and communicates across organizational levels and functions.
- Guides the successful completion of major initiatives or programs and leads large complex projects.
- Develops and applies complex and often long-term strategies on specific projects.
- Lead the architecture and delivery of core data platform capabilities, including ingestion, transformation, metadata, governed access, data quality, and analytics-ready data layers.
- Leads strategic initiatives and ensure successful executions.
- Partners closely with platform engineering, governance, security, and domain teams to define platform standards and scalable implementation patterns.
- Own the oversight of documentation of infrastructure and work instructions for systems and applications.
- Develop approaches and implement solutions to mitigate future incidents.
- Ensure that completed work delivers long-term value and enhances platform performance to maintain maximum functionality.
- The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification.
Requirements
- It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.
- Master's degree in a relevant field and 9 years of experience
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 11 years of related experience
- Advanced level knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), especially with services related to data storage, data processing, analytics, security, and compute.
Nice to have
- At least 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure and/or enterprise data platforms in a highly available and production environment.
- Experience working in a SOX and FDA regulated environment is a plus.
- Life sciences experience is a strong plus.
Skills
- Master's degree in a relevant field and 9 years of experience; or
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 11 years of related experience; or
- Equivalent combination of education or years of experience.
- Technical certification may be required.
- Advanced level knowledge with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, especially Terraform.
- Intermediate level knowledge with cloud and infrastructure automation.
- Intermediate level knowledge of modern development and deployment practices of continuous integration and continuous deployment.
- Strong knowledge of Databricks, modern lakehouse architecture, governance, metadata, and data quality principles.
- Strong working knowledge of Python, SQL, Spark, and dbt.
- Proven experience in lakehouse architectures on AWS data technologies (Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift, Athena) and Databricks.
- Expertise in programming languages such as dbt, Python, Spark SQL, and SQL.
- Knowledge of AWS services, including IAM.
Compensation
- The base pay range for this position is $182,000 - $259,000 annually.
- The base pay range may take into account the candidate's geographic region, which will adjust the pay depending on the specific work location.
Benefits
- Helps align business, data, and technical stakeholders around a common platform vision and architecture.
- The base pay offered will take into account the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, experience and internal equity, among other factors.
- Employees are also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus program, or if field sales staff, a sales-based incentive plan.
Company info
- Ensure platform capabilities are built for long-term scale, reuse, governance, and AI enablement from day one.
- Acts as advisor to management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications.
Equal opportunity
- If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the application and/or recruitment process, please email us at: recruiting@exelixis.com.
This listing is sourced directly from Exel's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.