R&D principal iot data pipeline architect

Location: U.S.A based - Remote
Segment: InSite
Direct Report To: Senior R&D Director

Duracell is seeking a Principal IoT Data Platform Architect to own the architecture, implementation framework, security, governance, and evolution of the Procell InSite data platform. This role spans IoT devices, Azure, Databricks, analytics, AI/ML, APIs, and customer-facing applications.
This hands-on technical authority will set standards, implement and test critical platform elements, establish secure reusable frameworks, and drive scalability, reliability, and product innovation. The role is a senior individual contributor operating through technical leadership and direct contribution.
 

Responsibilities

Data Platform Leadership
•    Own the platform roadmap, target architecture, transition plans, technical debt priorities, and architecture decisions.
•    Lead architecture and implementation across device-to-cloud ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, APIs, and applications.
•    Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable frameworks, decision records, and exception controls.
•    Define system boundaries and integration contracts across Firmware, Cloud, Data, Software, Analytics, Security, Product, and IT.
•    Translate product needs into measurable requirements for latency, scale, availability, recovery, quality, security, and cost.

Data Engineering & Architecture
•    Design and implement batch, streaming, event-driven, and API-based pipelines connecting devices, cloud services, analytics, and applications.
•    Own the telemetry lifecycle from device identity and ingestion through validation, enrichment, storage, serving, retention, and deletion.
•    Define event schemas, data models and contracts, schema evolution, replay, idempotency, deduplication, and ordering controls.
•    Implement lakehouse and streaming patterns with governed raw, validated, curated, and product-ready data layers.
•    Create scalable storage, processing, and serving patterns for telemetry, alerts, APIs, analytics, AI/ML, and low-code applications.
•    Establish data quality, lineage, observability, ownership, issue routing, and measurable service levels.
•    Build production-ready reference implementations and perform integration, contract, performance, resilience, security, and regression testing.
•    Lead capacity planning, workload isolation, scale testing, backfill, correction, replay, and migration strategies.
 

Governance & Security
•    Own Procell InSite governance for metadata, stewardship, classification, retention, lineage, auditability, and trusted datasets.
•    Define Unity Catalog architecture and integration with the enterprise governance ecosystem.
•    Implement least-privilege access, managed identities, secrets, encryption, key management, private connectivity, and security monitoring.
•    Own secure platform boundaries across Azure, Databricks, storage, networks, environments, APIs, and customer tenants.
•    Ensure tenant isolation and alignment with enterprise, contractual, privacy, cybersecurity, residency, retention, and audit requirements.
•    Perform threat modeling and security reviews for ingestion, data sharing, APIs, AI, and external integrations.
 

Cloud & Platform Strategy
•    Define and implement Azure and Databricks architecture and guardrails for ingestion, storage, processing, orchestration, serving, governance, and monitoring.
•    Own platform topology across subscriptions, resource groups, environments, regions, networks, identities, storage, and workspaces.
•    Implement infrastructure as code, source control, automated testing, CI/CD, environment promotion, deployment validation, and rollback.
•    Establish service objectives and observability for ingestion, latency, freshness, availability, performance, and recovery.
•    Define disaster recovery, backup, restore, RTO/RPO, regional recovery, dependency-failure, and recovery-testing strategies.
•    Drive capacity forecasting, cost attribution, budget controls, unit-cost measurement, platform lifecycle, and build-versus-buy decisions.
 

Technical Leadership
•    Serve as the technical authority, approve target architectures and standards, and lead design and exception reviews.
•    Convert approved designs into working frameworks, reference implementations, test strategies, and production-ready patterns.
•    Remain hands-on in critical design, coding, configuration, prototyping, troubleshooting, performance testing, and security validation.
•    Partner across engineering, product, cybersecurity, QA, operations, IT, and strategic vendors to deliver integrated solutions.
•    Mentor engineers and architects and communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and investment recommendations to leadership.
 

Qualifications

Must-Have
•    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
•    10+ years in cloud, software, data engineering, or platform architecture, including 5+ years leading complex production data-platform architecture.
•    Demonstrated hands-on ownership of large-scale production cloud data platforms and secure multi-tenant architectures.
•    Production experience with IoT telemetry, event-driven systems, high-volume streaming, and distributed-system failure modes.
•    Deep experience with Azure and Databricks, including Spark, Delta Lake, lakehouse design, performance optimization, and Unity Catalog.
•    Experience with IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Kafka, Structured Streaming, or comparable event and streaming technologies.
•    Strong SQL and proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, C#, or a comparable platform-development language.
•    Experience with data modeling, APIs, integration contracts, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.
•    Experience implementing security, governance, lineage, access controls, tenant isolation, auditability, disaster recovery, and cloud cost controls.
•    Ability to turn ambiguous product requirements into secure, testable architectures, working implementations, and executable roadmaps.
•    Ability to defend architecture decisions with engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, product, vendors, and executives.

Nice-to-Have
•    Experience with connected-device fleets, device registries or twins, real-time alerting, and condition-monitoring platforms.
•    Experience with customer-facing Data-as-a-Service, SaaS, governed data sharing, Power BI, low-code, or generative AI platforms.
•    Experience leading platform modernization or migration while maintaining production availability.
•    Azure or Databricks certifications; master's degree in a technical discipline.
 

About UsDuracell is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of high-performance alkaline batteries, complemented by a portfolio of high quality, market leading specialty, rechargeable and professional batteries. Duracell’s products power numerous critical professional devices across the globe such as heart rate monitors, defibrillators, telemetry devices, smoke detectors, fire alarms, automated valves and security systems. As the leader in the professional power category, Duracell has a rich history of innovation, continuously introducing batteries that are smaller, thinner, with more energy and longer lasting than competitive brands. Since March 2016, Duracell has found its permanent home within Berkshire Hathaway (ranked #4 World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune Magazine and #3 in the Fortune 500), and will continue to focus on sustainable growth, industry-leading innovation while creating long-term value for our customers and consumers. At Duracell, integrity, end-to-end accountability across all levels, fast decision-making and a “can do” attitude is highly valued.