Lead Data Architect

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Cupertino, CA Salary:

$125,000.00 USD Annually - $130,000.00

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Lead Data Architect Location San Jose, CA or Scottsdale, AZ Employment:

Fulltime Own the target-state data architecture on Google Spanner, ensuring the new data model satisfies functional correctness, performance SLOs, and transactional semantics required by 1000+ applications-before large-scale app rewrites occur. This role is not a schema converter. It is a distributed systems architect role. Key Responsibilities Data Architecture & Modeling Define the Logical Canonical Data Model (LCDM) independent of physical storage.

Design Spanner-native physical schemas:

o Primary key strategy o Row key distribution (hotspot avoidance) o Interleaving decisions o Secondary index strategy Decide where denormalization, projections, or materialized views are required. Transaction & Consistency Design Define transaction boundaries under Spanner constraints: o Single-partition vs multi-partition transactions o Atomicity and consistency trade-offs Classify workloads by strong consistency vs bounded staleness tolerance. Define idempotency and retry-safe patterns. Compatibility & Contract Validation Work with QA and platform teams to validate: o CRUD contracts o Query semantics o Transaction invariants Review and sign off on schema compatibility scorecards. Performance & Scalability Participate in workload replay analysis.

Diagnose and resolve:

o Hot key risks o Transaction conflicts o Index amplification Size Spanner instances and estimate cost envelopes. Leadership Act as final authority for Spanner data design decisions. Mentor domain architects and engineers. Provide executive-level architectural rationale. Required Skills & Experience 10+ years in large-scale data architecture Deep expertise in Google Spanner internals: o TrueTime o Distributed transactions o Synchronous replication Experience designing petabyte-scale, multi-region OLTP systems Strong understanding of: o Distributed consistency models o Failure modes in globally distributed databases Prior Oracle ? distributed DB migration experience strongly preferred By providing your phone number, you consent to: (1) receive automated text messages and calls from the Judge Group, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively "Judge") to such phone number regarding job opportunities, your job application, and for other related purposes. Message & data rates apply and message frequency may vary. Consistent with Judge's Privacy Policy, information obtained from your consent will not be shared with third parties for marketing/promotional purposes. Reply STOP to opt out of receiving telephone calls and text messages from Judge and HELP for help.

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