The Home Depot

ARCHITECT TECHNOLOGY, DATA

The Home Depot
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3 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$105k - $125k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, and govern secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective software and data-platform solutions.
  • Define lakehouse architecture, open table formats, catalogs and metastores, storage-compute separation, semantic-layer standards, and analytics-serving designs.
  • Establish data modeling, medallion-layering, data-contract, onboarding, governance, metadata, lineage, quality, classification, and access-control standards.
  • Architect and optimize StarRocks serving layers, including partitioning, materialized views, external catalogs, query performance, and capacity planning.
  • Lead architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, Architecture Decision Records, governance reviews, rollout plans, data migrations, and cutovers.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, consultation, vendor engagement, and escalation support across engineering, analytics, operations, security, product, and business teams.
  • Oversee testing, security remediation, SLOs, monitoring, performance and capacity reviews, incident triage, and production resolution.
  • Drive cloud workload optimization, query-cost monitoring, right-sizing, and migration of on-premises data platforms to cloud environments.
  • Apply AI-assisted engineering, code generation, review, test generation, data profiling, lineage mapping, and documentation practices.
  • Research emerging data, analytics, AI, and machine-learning technologies and share knowledge through training, workshops, conferences, and technical forums.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of related professional experience, including 5+ years in data and application architecture design and development.
  • Hands-on experience designing lakehouse architectures with Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi, including catalogs, metastores, data modeling, warehousing, and medallion layering.
  • Strong SQL and experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Dataform or dbt, plus hands-on Java, JavaScript, and Python development.
  • Experience with Apache Airflow or Cloud Composer; Apache Beam or Dataflow; Spark or Dataproc; and Pub/Sub.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, Redis, Bigtable, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and high-concurrency OLAP engines such as StarRocks, ClickHouse, Apache Doris, Druid, or Pinot.
  • Experience with semantic-layer technologies such as Cube.dev, dbt Semantic Layer, AtScale, or LookML, including metric modeling, pre-aggregations, caching, and performance tuning.
  • Familiarity with Looker and Tableau, and experience implementing data quality, governance, compliance, cataloging, lineage, classification, and policy-based access control.
  • Experience with Dataplex, OpenMetadata, Collibra, DataHub, Soda, or Great Expectations, plus Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring and alerting.
  • Experience optimizing storage and processing performance and cost across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Experience migrating on-premises SQL Server and SAP BW data platforms to the cloud, including assessment, architecture, migration, reconciliation, validation, and cutover.
  • Hands-on experience with Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Gemini in the software development lifecycle and understanding of agents, MCP/tool connectors, and retrieval-augmented generation.
  • SAP Datasphere, SAP BW, S/4HANA data extraction, and retail experience are assets.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, mentoring, and technical leadership abilities.

Benefits

  • The position pays $105,000.00-$125,250.00 annually.
  • The posting does not state a work arrangement, additional benefits, or contract duration.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache BeamApache SparkClickHousedbtGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudGrafanaJavaJavaScriptMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRedisSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
The Home Depot

About The Home Depot

10,000+ employees

The Home Depot is a public home-improvement retailer selling building materials, tools, appliances, and installation services to DIY homeowners and professional contractors in North America. It operates more than 2,300 stores across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and runs a large e-commerce channel, supported by private-label brands and tool rental. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, it is the world’s largest home-improvement specialty retailer.

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