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Hands-on Principal Data Architect to redesign Babel Street's data infrastructure and pipelines, setting the target architecture and leading a multi-year migration of a petabyte-scale platform from AWS to Google Cloud. Scope covers streaming and batch ingestion, storage and search (BigQuery, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), governance, and provenance for AI. Requires 12+ years building data systems, strong Python plus Java, Scala, or Go, and experience with Spark, Beam/Dataflow, Kafka, and GCP.
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hatch I.T. is partnering with Babel Street to find a Principal Data Architect. Please see details below:
About the Role
Principal Data Architect, Data Platform and PipelinesÂ
Babel Street is hiring a hands-on architect to redesign and rebuild Babel Street's data infrastructure and pipelines. You will set the target architecture, write the critical code yourself, and lead engineers through a multi-year move of a petabyte-scale platform onto Google Cloud.Â
Babel Street collects, enriches and resolves open-source and commercial data across hundreds of sources and dozens of languages. Today that data flows through pipelines and stores that grew up separately: a mix of warehouse, search and object storage, plus legacy delivery systems that are hard to change and expensive to run. Your job is to replace that with one coherent platform that is cheaper, more reliable, and built for AI and agentic workloads.Â
This is a principal engineering role, not a people-management role. You will be judged on the systems you design and ship, the quality of your technical decisions, and how much you raise the bar for the engineers around you. You will report to the SVP of Engineering and work alongside their Head of Architecture, AI, Graph and Product teams.Â
About the Company
Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the worldâs most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. They deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched, analysis-ready data regardless of language, proactive risk identification, 360-degree insights, high-speed automation, and seamless integration into existing systems. Babel Street empowers government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage. The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world.  Babel Street is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with regional offices in Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH, and international offices in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K.
What you will do in your first year:
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Benefits at Babel Street (just to name a few...)
- Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances â for you and your family!
- Retirement Plans:Â Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.
- Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.
- Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.
Compensation: USD 220,000 â 250,000 per year salary