Principal Lead- ETL Architect

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This Principal Lead ETL Architect provides strategic architecture leadership and direction for enterprise integration capabilities that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and AI-ready movement of data across the organization. The role is responsible for driving the integration strategy, architecture standards, modernization roadmaps, and future-state technology direction supporting cloud, data, digital, and AI platforms. As a senior individual contributor, this position serves as the enterprise integration authority for ETL, file transfer, API, event-driven, middleware, and orchestration capabilities. The architect partners across business, engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and enterprise architecture teams to simplify technology landscapes, reduce technical debt, accelerate cloud adoption, and establish reusable integration capabilities that improve agility and business outcomes. The role also leads technology evaluations, architecture assessments, and modernization initiatives supporting long-term organizational objectives, including cloud transformation, AI enablement, platform rationalization, and enterprise resiliency.

Independently perform highly complex architecture, strategy, and technology leadership assignments. Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture strategy, target-state architecture, and multi-year modernization roadmaps. Develop and promote enterprise integration principles, standards, reference architectures, and best practices. Lead architecture assessments, proof-of-concepts, technology evaluations, and strategic recommendations. Drive modernization initiatives involving ETL, file transfer, API-led connectivity, event-driven architectures, cloud-native integration, and AI-enabled workflows. Partner with application, data, cloud, infrastructure, platform, and security teams to align technology roadmaps and investment decisions. Develop future-state integration patterns supporting AWS, Snowflake, Fabric, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled business capabilities. Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, simplify technology platforms, improve resiliency, and increase operational efficiency. Implement governance processes, technology standards, and architectural guardrails ensuring consistency across portfolios. Serve as an escalation resource and strategic advisor during major incidents, platform transformations, and critical architecture reviews. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solution designs align with architectural objectives, enterprise standards, and modernization strategies. Lead vendor evaluations, industry research, market analysis, and strategic technology partnerships. Mentor solution architects and engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, and knowledge sharing. Create, maintain, and communicate architecture artifacts, reference models, standards, and roadmaps. Participate in the continual refinement of architecture processes,