Principal Data Architect (Data Science)
Remote · USD 180,000-240,000 / year · 6+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 180,000-240,000 / year
Responsibilities
- Design and build the pipelines that bring data in for feature engineering and machine learning.
- Use your knowledge of healthcare data, statistics, and data science to create features with real predictive power.
- Use techniques like clustering, text analytics, and PCA to find the most useful signals while preserving the meaning in the original data, so models stay accurate and scale well.
- Explore the data to find patterns, trends, and relationships, and use what you learn to match features with the right modeling approach.
- Experiment with statistical and machine learning methods to build, tune, and optimize predictive models that fit the use case.
- Ship production code that follows engineering best practices.
- Document your work and share your approach, insights, and solutions with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Build and maintain the pipelines and processes that keep our enterprise data science products running smoothly.
- Keep data and outputs accurate and reliable from start to finish.
- Partner with stakeholders, data scientists, data engineers, and product managers to build and deliver great data products.
Requirements
- 6+ years working across data science and machine learning (for the Lead level)
- Expert-level SQL and Python
- Hands-on work with both structured and unstructured data, such as tables, text, images, and video
- Experience with both relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases
- Familiarity with ETL and data processing tools like Apache Spark
- Experience using tools to visualize data and monitor its health
- Comfort with modern software practices like automated testing and CI/CD
- Experience with Docker
- Experience deploying to GCP or another cloud platform
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Apache Spark
- Docker
- GCP