Johnson Controls · 1 month ago
Data Platform Architect (hybrid)
Westford-Massachusetts-United States of America
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expJohnson Controls is a global leader in building performance and security solutions. They are seeking a Data Platform Architect to lead the design and evolution of the data infrastructure for their One Security Platform, focusing on data ingestion, storage, analytics, and AI model enablement.
Industrial EngineeringPhysical SecuritySmart Building
Responsibilities
Design and evolve the end-to-end data platform architecture that supports telemetry, event streams, metadata, logs, system health, analytics, and ML pipelines
Define data modeling standards, retention policies, partitioning, and lifecycle strategies for structured and unstructured data across the OSP ecosystem
Partner with AI/ML architects and analytics teams to ensure that the data platform supports training, inferencing, real-time analytics, and alerting use cases
Lead the selection and integration of data technologies (e.g., Kafka, Redshift, TimeScaleDB, S3, etc.) aligned to performance, cost, and reliability goals
Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and security standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC2, NDAA, FIPS) for data at rest, in motion, and in use
Build and maintain telemetry pipelines that feed dashboards, observability tools, and proactive health monitoring for platform services
Collaborate closely with platform, cloud, product, and QA teams to ensure data availability, correctness, lineage, and operational efficiency
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers, data engineers, and analytics stakeholders
Maintain a roadmap for continuous improvement of the data platform with evolving business needs and technology trends
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in software/data engineering, with at least 3 years in a data architect or platform architect role
Minimum Bachelor's degree in a technical, or engineering, related field
Experience designing cloud-native, multi-tenant data platforms for SaaS applications (preferably on Azure, AWS or GCP)
Deep expertise in event-driven data pipelines, streaming frameworks (Kafka), and big data storage systems
Strong hands-on experience with data lake/data warehouse technologies, columnar databases, and time-series storage
Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD integration for data services, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Strong understanding of security, encryption, access control, and compliance for enterprise-grade data environments
Exceptional communication and documentation skills — able to evangelize architecture and drive alignment across cross-functional teams
Able to travel 5-10%
Preferred
Experience with security, IoT, or real-time telemetry systems (video, access control, sensor data, etc.)
Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK) and distributed tracing
Exposure to ML/AI pipelines, model training and serving architectures, or time-series analytics for anomaly detection
Experience designing for scalability across global deployments and regulatory zones
Company
Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls offers smart buildings that create safe, healthy, and sustainable environments.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.6BKey Investors
US Department of Energy
2024-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2024-12-04Post Ipo Debt· $525.61M
2024-05-20Post Ipo Equity· $90M
Leadership Team
Joakim Weidemanis
Chief Executive Officer
Marc Vandiepenbeeck
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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