Principal - Data Products & Solutions

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Job Summary

As Principal - Data Product & Solution Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and delivering domain-level and cross-domain data products such as Customer360, Product360, Asset360, AssetBrain, CustomerBrain, and Lead-to-Cash analytics solutions. You will partner closely with engineering teams, product owners, and business stakeholders to build scalable, trusted, and reusable data products that power analytics, AI/ML, and operational use cases across the enterprise. 

Your mission is to build a unified, trusted, and holistic data ecosystem. You will design the blueprints that break down data silos, creating canonical data models and scalable integration patterns. By providing expert technical leadership, you will guide the development of platforms that unlock unprecedented insights, drive superior customer experiences, and foster operational excellence. You are the single point of technical ownership for the architecture and viability of these integrated data platforms. 

Responsibilities

Data Product Design & Delivery 

• Drive the technical design, development, and delivery of cross-domain data products integrating data from multiple domains (e.g., CRM, ERP, IoT, operational systems)

• Ensure data product architectures align with enterprise data strategy and promote reuse, scalability, and standardization

• Work with business and analytics teams to understand requirements and translate them into actionable data solutions and APIs

• Contribute to the definition and adoption of data product standards (semantic models, APIs, metrics) across domains

Engineering & Solutioning 

• Develop technical solutions leveraging cloud-native platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS or Azure) that meet business and operational needs

• Collaborate with platform engineering and domain data teams to implement ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and monitoring patterns

• Support data scientists and AI/ML engineers by designing data products that enable advanced analytics and machine learning solutions (e.g., AssetBrain, CustomerBrain)

Collaboration & Influence 

• Serve as a key technical advisor to domain engineering teams and cross-functional partners

• Advocate for a data product mindset and promote data democratization through well-governed, discoverable, and high-quality data products

Governance & Quality 

• Ensure that data products meet enterprise governance, data privacy, security, and compliance requirements

• Incorporate metadata, lineage, and quality controls in all data product designs

What You Bring: 

• Passion for designing data solutions that enable trust, reuse, and agility at scale

• Ability to translate complex data requirements into high-quality technical designs that deliver business value

• Strong sense of ownership and commitment to building durable, high-quality architectures

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, solution engineering, or architecture roles, including experience designing and delivering data products

• Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale data solutions, ideally in data center, cloud infrastructure, or technology companies

• Strong understanding of data governance, quality, and compliance standards 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with data products such as Customer360, Product360, Asset360, or similar cross-domain solutions

• Cloud certifications (e.g., Google Professional Data Engineer, AWS Big Data Specialty)

• Experience delivering analytics self-service capabilities, conversational analytics and enterprise dashboards using BI tools (e.g., Looker, Power BI, Tableau)

• Familiarity with AI/ML operationalization, including enabling data pipelines for AI/ML model development and deployment

• Knowledge of data mesh principles or federated data architectures

• Experience with cost optimization and cloud resource management for data workloads

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