[Hiring] Principal Infrastructure Architect @ZoomInfo Technologies LLC

Role Description

As a Principal Infrastructure Architect on our Infrastructure Architecture team, you will be the architecture team's partner to ZoomInfo's data engineering organization. Data engineering owns the platforms and the products built on them. You bring the infrastructure patterns, evaluation rigor, and cross-team alignment that help them build and run those platforms well on GCP.

This is a cloud architect seat with a data specialty. You bring the same cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and infrastructure-as-code foundation as the rest of the architecture team, plus enough hands-on depth in data systems to be credible with the engineers who run them.

The work breaks down four ways:

• Patterns: Establish and maintain the paved-road patterns data teams build on: infrastructure as code, CI/CD for data jobs and pipelines, monitoring and alerting, performance, and cost.
• Enablement and alignment: Help data teams adopt those patterns, review their designs, and work through hard infrastructure trade-offs with them.
• Evaluation: Run POCs of new data technologies and vendor offerings as part of the procurement and technology-lifecycle process, and write recommendations engineering leaders can act on.
• Shared stewardship: Take a full share of the architecture team's general work: weekly architecture reviews across all domains, standards and ADRs, and infrastructure consulting for any team that needs it.

The data estate is broad. We don't expect deep experience across all of it. We expect real depth in some areas and the ability to build depth in others as the work demands.

Patterns get adopted here through leadership and communication rather than positional authority. You'll write reference implementations, open the first PRs, and stay hands-on through enablement when a critical initiative calls for it.

Qualifications

• Influence and communication: Present recommendations, show their value, and back them with prototypes, benchmarks, and documented rationale.
• Cloud infrastructure foundation: Production experience architecting on GCP and/or AWS beyond the data services.
• Hands-on data infrastructure experience at scale: Built and operated infrastructure under data platforms at multi-terabyte to petabyte scale.
• Depth in at least two data domains, fluency across the rest: Deep production experience in at least two data domains.
• Performance and cost engineering: Diagnosed and fixed expensive or slow data workloads.
• Development and operational depth: Dive into code to prove out a pattern and test behavior under load.
• Technology evaluation: Run rigorous evaluations that separate vendor pitch from architectural fit.

Requirements

• Establish infrastructure patterns for data workloads.
• Design and maintain reference patterns for provisioning and operating the data platforms ZoomInfo runs.
• Build the data paved road: Define CI/CD and GitOps patterns for data jobs and pipelines.
• Establish performance, cost, and observability patterns.
• Evaluate new technologies: Run structured POCs of emerging data technologies.
• Bring managed data services inside the perimeter.
• Support data consolidation and governance efforts.
• Prototype and hand off: Build the reference implementation and partner with the owning teams.
• Participate in architecture review: Bring a consistent, documented rubric to weekly architecture reviews.
• Enable teams: Host design reviews and workshops.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including holistic mind, body, and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being.
• Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s work location, qualifications, skills, experience, and/or training.
• Base salary range: $157,500 — $247,500 USD.