Motorola Solutions

Principal Streaming Data Architect

Motorola Solutions
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Chicago, IL, USA or Schaumburg, IL, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$159k - $186k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead real-time data streaming and processing architecture for a nationwide sensor detection platform.
  • Assess Azure Event Hubs and Azure Databricks and advise on stream-processing frameworks for high-velocity data.
  • Design and develop stateful, low-latency distributed stream-processing applications with sub-second sensor-message deduplication.
  • Design and implement a schema registry and event-driven data modeling strategy for sensor telemetry pipelines.
  • Establish data lineage, metadata management, auditability, and technical data governance within the streaming architecture.
  • Operationalize and deploy real-time machine learning models such as anomaly detection and predictive tracking in stream-processing pipelines.
  • Develop fault-tolerant telemetry consumption patterns supporting zero data loss and end-to-end sensor-to-UI latency.
  • Partner with DevSecOps to ensure compliance with CJIS, FIPS 140-3, and FedRAMP High standards.
  • Collaborate with geospatial data engineering and backend teams on in-stream anonymization and feeds to real-time UIs and spatial databases.
  • Provide architecture reviews, hands-on guidance, and mentorship to junior and mid-level team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or 10+ years of experience.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen due to the nature of some contracts.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, real-time streaming, stateful stream processing, and high-velocity data pipelines.
  • Ability to design data governance, schema registry, event-driven data modeling, lineage, metadata, and auditability solutions.
  • Experience deploying real-time machine learning models into streaming pipelines.
  • Experience designing fault-tolerant systems with zero data loss and low end-to-end latency.
  • Ability to work across engineering, product, compliance, infrastructure, Data Science, geospatial data engineering, backend, and DevSecOps teams.

Benefits

  • Incentive bonus plans.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • 10 paid holidays.
  • Generous paid time off packages.
  • Employee stock purchase plan.
  • Paid parental and family leave.
  • No travel or relocation is provided.

Tech Stack

Databricks

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Motorola Solutions

10,000+ employees

Motorola Solutions builds mission‑critical communications, video security and access control, body‑worn cameras, and command‑center software for public safety agencies and enterprises. It sells radios and LMR/P25 systems, cloud software, and managed services used by police, fire, and critical infrastructure operators. Headquartered in Chicago and publicly traded on the NYSE (MSI), the company was formed in 2011 after Motorola’s split and operates globally.

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