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Our agentic voice AI portfolio-AIR, AVA, and ACE-brings together automation, assistance, and insights across the entire conversation lifecycle. The result? More seamless, intelligent experiences for businesses everywhere.\nWith $2.5B+ in ARR and $250M invested in R&D annually, we’re building the future of AI-powered business communications.\nWe are seeking aSr. Manager/Lead Systems & Data Architect with deep hands-on technical expertise and strategic vision to design and lead the next generation of our enterprise intelligence data platform. This role will own the architecture, roadmap, and execution of a modern, cloud-native data ecosystem that supports analytics, real-time processing, and advanced AI/ML and LLM workloads at scale.\nThis is a highly visible, high-impact role that sits at the intersection of data engineering, cloud infrastructure, analytics, and AI. You will serve as the technical authority for data architecture decisions while mentoring teams and influencing senior stakeholders across the organization.\nIf you thrive in complex modernization initiatives, enjoy solving hard distributed systems problems, and want to shape a platform that will power data-driven and AI-enabled products for years to come, this role is for you.\nWhat You’ll Do\nArchitecture & Strategy\nDefine and own a cloud-native, enterprise-scale data architecture that supports batch, streaming, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.\n\nDevelop and execute a multi-year data platform modernization roadmap, balancing delivery speed, risk, cost efficiency, and business continuity.\n\nDrive architectural decisions across Snowflake, Databricks, and cloud-native services, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.\n\nPlatform & Engineering Leadership\nPartner closely with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, security, and data science teams to design scalable ingestion, transformation, and serving layers.\n\nDefine standards and best practices for data ingestion, transformation, integration, and data modeling across diverse structured and semi-structured sources.\n\nEstablish robust data governance, quality, lineage, and access control frameworks aligned with enterprise and regulatory needs.\n\nOptimize performance and cost efficiency across Snowflake and Databricks environments, including workload isolation, query optimization, and storage strategies.\n\nDevOps, Reliability & Security\nLead the adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., Terraform) for data platforms.\n\nDefine patterns for environment management, observability, disaster recovery, and security-by-design.\n\nEnsure the platform meets enterprise standards for data privacy, compliance, and resilience.\n\nAI / ML & Future Readiness\nDesign the data foundation required for advanced analytics, ML, and LLM workloads, including feature stores, vector storage, and real-time data access.\n\nStay ahead of emerging trends in AI, ML, and data platforms, translating innovation into practical, production-ready architectures.\n\nInfluence the evolution toward lakehouse, data mesh, and data product-oriented architectures where appropriate.\n\nLeadership & Influence\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to senior data engineers and architects.\n\nAct as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership and business stakeholders.\n\nClearly communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or platform engineering roles.\n\nDeep hands-on expertise with SQL, Spark, and Python, and strong understanding of distributed data processing.\n\nStrong experience designing and operating data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including compute, storage, networking, and security.\n\nSolid background in data governance, metadata management, lineage, and cataloging (e.g., Purview, Collibra, Alation).\n\nExperience with real-time and streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt).\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and complex migration programs.\n\nExceptional communication skills and executive-level presence.\n\nNice to Have\nSnowflake, Databricks, or cloud provider certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).\n\nHands-on experience building ML and AI pipelines on Databricks or similar platforms.\n\nExperience with multi-petabyte-scale data platforms.\n\nFamiliarity with data mesh, lakehouse, and domain-oriented data product concepts.\n\nExposure to LLM pipelines, vector databases, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures.\n\nWhat we offer:\nComprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance\n\nHealth Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSAs) and Commuter benefits\n\nVoluntary supplemental health coverage and life insurance\n\n401K match and ESPP\n\nPaid time off and paid sick leave\n\nPaid parental and pregnancy leave\n\nFamily-forming benefits (IVF, Preservation, Adoption etc.)\n\nEmergency backup care (Child/Adult/Pets)\n\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP) with counseling sessions available 24/7\n\nFree legal services that provide legal advice, document creation and estate planning\n\nEmployee bonus referral program\n\nStudent loan refinancing assistance\n\nEmployee 1:1 coaching, perks and discounts program\n\nRingCentral’s Engineering team works on high-complexity projects that set the standard for performance and reliability at massive scale. What kind of scale? Millions of users today and hundreds of millions tomorrow. This is your chance to help imagine, develop and deliver products that raise the technological bar, and power human connections. If you’re a talented, ambitious, creative thinker, RingCentral is the perfect environment to join a world class team and bring your ideas to life. RingCentral’s work culture is the backbone of our success. And don’t just take our word for it: we are recognized as a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, the Top Work Culture by Comparably and hold local BPTW awards in every major location. Bottom line: We are committed to hiring and retaining great people because we know you power our success.\nAbout RingCentral\nRingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral® empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.\nRingCentral is an equal opportunity employer that truly values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during our application and interview process. 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