RingCentral · 23 hours ago
Lead Systems & Data Architect
Belmont, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$177K/yr - $252K/yr
10+ years expRingCentral is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions. They are seeking a Lead Systems & Data Architect to design and lead the next generation of their enterprise data platform, focusing on modernizing their data ecosystem to support analytics, machine learning, and AI capabilities.
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Responsibilities
Define and own a cloud-native, enterprise-scale data architecture that supports batch, streaming, analytics, and AI/ML workloads
Develop and execute a multi-year data platform modernization roadmap, balancing delivery speed, risk, cost efficiency, and business continuity
Drive architectural decisions across Snowflake, Databricks, and cloud-native services, ensuring scalability, security, and performance
Partner closely with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, security, and data science teams to design scalable ingestion, transformation, and serving layers
Define standards and best practices for data ingestion, transformation, integration, and data modeling across diverse structured and semi-structured sources
Establish robust data governance, quality, lineage, and access control frameworks aligned with enterprise and regulatory needs
Optimize performance and cost efficiency across Snowflake and Databricks environments, including workload isolation, query optimization, and storage strategies
Lead the adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., Terraform) for data platforms
Define patterns for environment management, observability, disaster recovery, and security-by-design
Ensure the platform meets enterprise standards for data privacy, compliance, and resilience
Design the data foundation required for advanced analytics, ML, and LLM workloads, including feature stores, vector storage, and real-time data access
Stay ahead of emerging trends in AI, ML, and data platforms, translating innovation into practical, production-ready architectures
Influence the evolution toward lakehouse, data mesh, and data product–oriented architectures where appropriate
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior data engineers and architects
Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership and business stakeholders
Clearly communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or platform engineering roles
Proven success leading large-scale data platform migrations, including: On-prem data warehouses (e.g., Oracle, Teradata) to Snowflake and Hadoop ecosystems (HDFS, Hive, Spark) to Databricks
Deep hands-on expertise with SQL, Spark, and Python, and strong understanding of distributed data processing
Strong experience designing and operating data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including compute, storage, networking, and security
Solid background in data governance, metadata management, lineage, and cataloging (e.g., Purview, Collibra, Alation)
Experience with real-time and streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt)
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and complex migration programs
Exceptional communication skills and executive-level presence
Preferred
Snowflake, Databricks, or cloud provider certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Hands-on experience building ML and AI pipelines on Databricks or similar platforms
Experience with multi-petabyte-scale data platforms
Familiarity with data mesh, lakehouse, and domain-oriented data product concepts
Exposure to LLM pipelines, vector databases, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance
Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSAs) and Commuter benefits
Voluntary supplemental health coverage and life insurance
401K match and ESPP
Paid time off and paid sick leave
Paid parental and pregnancy leave
Family-forming benefits (IVF, Preservation, Adoption etc.)
Emergency backup care (Child/Adult/Pets)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with counseling sessions available 24/7
Free legal services that provide legal advice, document creation and estate planning
Employee bonus referral program
Student loan refinancing assistance
Employee 1:1 coaching, perks and discounts program
Company
RingCentral
RingCentral is a provider of enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.69BKey Investors
Sylebra CapitalAkkadian VenturesHermes Growth Partners
2025-09-12Post Ipo Debt· $1.24B
2023-08-09Post Ipo Debt· $400M
2023-05-25Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Vlad Shmunis
Founder, CEO, Chairman
Vlad Vendrow
CTO
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