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180 Canada Wind River is hiring a mid-level Data Platform Architect. This is a full-time role in USA Walnut Creek, CA - WR. posted yesterday. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.
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Data Platform Architect
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ABOUT WIND RIVER
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.
Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.
The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for a Data Engineering and Analytics Leader who will provide oversight into our data platform architecture that supports business analytics and dashboard development. Wind River has a modern data platform that provides data and metrics for the entire organization. In this role, you will be the architect for the overall product and guide the team to model data to generate business-driven metrics, illustrated through robust dashboards and visualizations. Must have fluency in Wind River data stack: Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Tableau. Must be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams, including executives. Must be comfortable in a fast-paced, service-oriented environment.
YOUR ROLE
The successful candidate will work with key executive stakeholders to collect requirements, then architect the data path from ingestion to visualization. The candidate should evangelize best practices for data engineering and analytics – leading by example and mentoring for the junior engineers.
In your daily job you will:
- Architect data structure from ingestion to visualization using Snowflake, dbt, and Tableau
- Implement best practices for the data stack that provides maintainability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Provide expertise in data warehouse modeling and development for Snowflake
- Exercise best practices in optimal Data modeling for nonuniform sets of data
- Provide best practices for source code control with Github
- Design and Maintain data security access controls
- Develop SQL, HTML, and/or Javascript code to optimize the stack or to generate views for visualization.
- Work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver to respective stakeholders.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior data developers
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE
Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:
- BS in Computer Science. The emphasis in Data Engineering is a plus
- 10-12 years Data Engineering Development and visualization experience
- 6-8 years of Data Warehouse experience is required. Snowflake DWH is preferred
- 6-8 years of SQL experience, Snowflake SQL is preferred
- 2-4 years of dbt experiences, semantic layer experience is a plus
- 3-5 years of experience with Github.
- 2-3 years of experience with CI/CD tools for the modern data stack
- 3-5 years of Tableau Cloud or a modern data stack
- 2+ years of Python development
- HTML and Javascript experiences as it relate to Tableau are preferred
- Experience with the following Enterprise systems: Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, Oracle BI, Jira, Financial planning applications (Anaplan, Adaptive)
- Fluent written and verbal communication skills
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS
Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.
What We Offer
The opportunity to shape the future of industrial, medical, automotive, telecommunications, aerospace, government, and defense solutions with cutting-edge technology.
Competitive Salary: Attractive base salary with performance-based incentives - UNCAPPED Plan.
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and retirement plans.
Growth Opportunities: Opportunities for professional development and career advancement within a leading technology company.
Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge technology and a team of passionate professionals dedicated to driving innovation.
Join us at Wind River, where we're not just shaping technology; we're shaping the future of a safer, more connected world. Your journey to make a meaningful impact begins here.
APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:
Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.
Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.
Compensation
This role is compensation range is between 176,000 to 210,000 plus annual incentive plan bonus. Compensation is determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.
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This position is based in USA Walnut Creek, CA - WR. 180 Canada Wind River has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.
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When was the Data Platform Architect role at 180 Canada Wind River posted?
This role was posted on July 21, 2026 (yesterday). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.
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