Sr. Principal Data Engineer / Data Architect

<p> <strong>Headquarters:</strong> Austin, TX, United States <br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="http://sbgi.net">http://sbgi.net</a> </p> <div><strong>Description</strong><br><p><b>Location:</b> United States (Remote)</p> <p><b>Reports to:</b> SVP of Tech</p> <div> </div> <div> As the Sr. Principal Data Engineer, you will be the primary architect of Digital Remedy’s next-generation data platform. You won't just move data; you will design the blueprints for how we handle massive-scale AdTech telemetry. You will bridge the gap between business priorities and technical execution, ensuring our "Partner" integrations are scalable, cost-efficient, and resilient. </div> <div> </div> <p><b>Key Responsibilities</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Architectural Leadership:</b> Design and oversee the migration/optimization of our data lakehouse architecture using Databricks.</li> <li><b>Production Excellence:</b> Serve as the escalation point for the platform, leveraging a <b>proven record of handling production issues</b> to ensure 24/7 reliability of mission-critical pipelines.</li> <li><b>Strategic Capacity Planning:</b> Work directly with the SVP of Tech to translate product roadmaps into technical requirements. This requires the <b>ability to multi-task</b> across various high-priority workstreams without losing sight of architectural integrity.</li> <li><b>Infrastructure as Code:</b> Drive the adoption of Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) to standardize deployments across dev, staging, and production.</li> <li><b>Mentorship Governance:</b> Provide high-level guidance to engineering squads in India and the US, defining schemas and governance models for BigQuery and Databricks.</li> <li>Work with engineers across multiple geographies and time zones.</li> </ul> <p><b>Mandatory Requirements</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Expert-Level Databricks:</b> Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience specifically within the Databricks ecosystem (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Photon).</li> <li><b>The Stack:</b> Deep