Principal Architect & Data Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals safer businesses and ultimately safer nations. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Aperçu de lentreprise

Chez Motorola Solutions nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations des écoles des hôpitaux des entreprises et finalement des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.

Department Overview

Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Architect & Data Engineer to serve as the technical visionary and master builder for our next-generation data ecosystem. You will lead the strategy and execution required to unify our current data silos into a high-performance Federated Enterprise Data Intelligence platform.

In this role you will balance the heavy lifting of massive-scale engineering with the high-level strategy of agentic AI and executive-level roadmapping. You will be responsible for creating an environment that provides business units with autonomous sub-lake capabilities while maintaining a single governed enterprise source of truth.

Key Responsibilities

1. Unified Architecture & Engineering

• Data Lakehouse Evolution: Architect the consolidation of disparate storage and compute environments into a unified high-performance Lakehouse architecture (supporting Iceberg/Delta Lake).

• Agentic Frameworks: Scale and refine our internal agentic platform and registry ensuring it is robust model-agnostic and enterprise-ready.

• Federation & Governance: Design a Data Mesh that enables business units to innovate independently within pre-defined guardrails and Data Zones.

• Data Trust & Observability: Define the standards contracts and observability metrics that make structured and unstructured data trustworthy discoverable and easy to consume in both batch and near-real-time contexts.

2. Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Engineering Excellence: Set the global standard for high-performance query analytics data modeling and Zero-Copy architecture patterns.

• Coach & Develop: Serve as a formal mentor to intermediate and senior data architects and engineers fostering a culture of technical rigor automation and continuous professional development.

• Lead by Influence: Guide technical delivery across federated teams ensuring decentralized projects align with centralized enterprise architectural standards.

• Technical Direction: Serve as the lead technical resource on the team heavily influencing decisions regarding tools implementation design and workflows.

3. Executive Communication & Business Alignment

• Sr. Leadership Advisory: Present complex architectural roadmaps ROI projections and security risk assessments clearly to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Board.

• Strategic Mapping: Partner with business leaders to ensure that every data product and ML model directly maps to corporate KPIs such as Revenue Growth and Operational Efficiency.

Role Requirements & Qualifications

• Experience: 10 years of professional experience in large-scale data engineering architecture and data platform roles including 1 years at a Staff or Principal level.

• Languages & Tools: Mastery of Python SQL and Spark. Proven experience with workflow orchestration (e.g. Airflow) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and robust CI/CD testing pipelines.

• Cloud Ecosystems: Deep hands-on expertise in AWS (S3 Glue Redshift Bedrock) OR Google Cloud (BigQuery Vertex AI).

• Advanced Data Patterns: Expert knowledge of federated query engines semantic layers and modern Zero-Copy data sharing.

Data Governance Security & Operations

• Data Operations: Extensive experience operating production data platforms in batch and near-real-time environments with strong lineage catalogs and access controls serving as systems of record.

• Data Governance: Proven track record building enterprise data governance contracts and quality frameworks for both structured and unstructured data (including metadata standards classification and PII detection/redaction).

• Security & Privacy: Ability to define safe-access patterns for AI consumption to prevent sensitive data exposure. Experience enforcing security baselines (encryption RBAC/ABAC masking/tokenization) and policy-as-code.

• Cloud Economics: Experience establishing comprehensive frameworks for transparent cost attribution optimized storage tiering and advanced metadata tagging. Ability to advise executive leadership on operational efficiency by architecting automated triggers to detect and mitigate budget variances.

AI/ML Depth

• Generative AI: Proven experience architecting RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) patterns vector readiness concepts (schemas metadata provenance) and managing enterprise AI registries.

• Intelligence Orchestration: Experience defining business logic centrally (via semantic modeling) to seamlessly serve both human BI users and programmatic AI agents.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• The Teacher Mindset: A documented track record of developing junior and senior talent into high-performing architects.

• Executive Presence: Exceptional ability to simplify complex technical hurdles into strategic business decisions for non-technical stakeholders.

• Architectural Empathy: Ability to successfully navigate the needs of autonomous business units while firmly upholding central ITs security and quality mandates.

Target Base Salary Range:$160000 CAD - $170000 CAD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements

• 10 years of experience in data engineering and/or architecture

• AND 5 years AWS Redshift ecosystem

• AND 1 years of experience at a staff or principal level

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

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