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Principal Architect, Data Knowledge Platform Engineering

SpringCube

Full time - Principal Engineer

Fintech

United States, San Francisco - California

Published 12 hours ago

Salary: Disclosed upon interview

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Company Overview
A leading global payments and financial platform empowers businesses worldwide with fully integrated solutions for accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance. The company combines proprietary infrastructure and software to support over 200,000 businesses globally, delivering scalable, innovative financial technology solutions. With a strong presence across 26 offices and valued at US$8 billion, it is backed by top-tier investors and is committed to building the next generation of global banking infrastructure.

Summary
The Principal Architect will operate at the intersection of platform architecture, data products, and AI enablement. The role focuses on architecting a governed, reusable data, knowledge, and skills layer that powers analytics, AI agents, and real-time decision systems. This senior individual contributor position drives the evolution of the company’s data ecosystem into a fully AI agent-ready infrastructure, enabling actionable insights and high-quality decision-making across the business.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical execution of regional and global data localization strategies within the Databricks environment
  • Design scalable patterns that satisfy regulatory requirements while maintaining a unified global data model
  • Reconcile local compliance constraints with global consistency in definitions, metrics, and knowledge artifacts
  • Partner with Data Science, AI Engineering, Product, and Risk teams to support experimentation and data-driven decision-making
  • Lead global data modeling efforts and create unified schemas accommodating regional variance
  • Define and implement “Agent Interfaces”—APIs and tools enabling AI agents to interact with Knowledge and Skills layers
  • Implement Governance-as-Code, embedding automated data lineage and quality controls into the platform
  • Architect the three-layer platform structure:
    • Data Layer: Governed, high-quality structured datasets with strong lineage and regional compliance
    • Knowledge Layer: Semantic layer defining business metrics, entity relationships, and contextual documentation
    • Skills Layer: Operationalized capabilities including reusable workflows, agent-callable tools, automated pipelines, and transformation primitives

Minimum Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale data systems with strong architectural fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks ecosystem, including Unity Catalog and Delta Lake
  • Experience implementing semantic layers or metric stores for consistent reporting and analytics
  • Strong understanding of AI/agent-based data consumption and experience building APIs or data services
  • Experience designing solutions that meet regional data residency and compliance requirements
  • Proven senior-level individual contributor experience, including leading design reviews and mentoring engineers

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