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As Distinguished Engineer, Data Platform, you will own the end-to-end\nvision, architecture, and execution for solving this at the highest level: a single, governed data\nplatform that ingests data out of legacy per-tenant systems in real time, transforms and serves it\nthrough one shared, multi-tenant layer, and lets every consuming application - operational,\nanalytical, and AI-driven - build on it through standard, self-service access rather than one-off\nintegrations. This is a multi-year, org-wide mandate. You will set the technical direction that other\nprincipal and senior engineers build against, defend it in front of executive and security stakeholders,\nand see it through from first proof point to company-wide standard.\nWhat You Will Be Doing\nMulti-Tenant Data Platform Architecture & Vision\nOwn the long-term architectural vision for unifying data spread across hundreds of isolated,\nper-tenant systems into one governed, multi-tenant data platform.\nDefine the target end-state architecture - ingestion, transformation, storage, and access -\nand the phased roadmap to get there, starting from the first application's needs and scaling\nto serve the entire portfolio.\nSet the technical standards - schema governance, data contracts, tenant isolation models -\nthat every consuming team builds against.\nReal-Time Data Movement; Integration\nArchitect a real-time data-replication strategy that moves data out of legacy, single-tenant\nsystems into the platform with minimal latency, without requiring source application teams\nto re-architect.\nDesign the underlying streaming and integration backbone as a shared, multi-tenant, multi-\nconsumer capability - not a one-off pipeline built per application.\nDefine the long-term path toward bidirectional integration, so applications can eventually act\non platform data through governed, auditable pathways - not just read it.\nCommon Data Platform: Ingestion, Transformation & Governed Access\nDesign a layered data architecture - raw ingestion, domain-specific transformation, and a\ngoverned serving layer - that lets each consuming team own its own data model within shared guardrails, instead of building its own pipeline. Own the datastore strategy for the platform's mixed transactional and analytical workloads, running rigorous, benchmark-backed evaluations and defending the resulting recommendation to executive and security stakeholders.\nBuild a unified data access layer, supporting both synchronous and asynchronous consumption, that enforces authorization and eliminates direct, ungoverned access to underlying datastores.\nMulti-Tenant Consumption at Scale\nEnable every current and future consuming application - operational, analytical, and AI driven - to onboard onto the platform through standard, self-service integration paths.\nExtend the platform's governed data layer to serve as the foundation for machine-learning and generative-AI use cases, not just reporting and analytics.\nEstablish per-tenant cost visibility and quota governance so the platform scales economically as consumption grows across teams and tenants.\nObservability, Governance & Compliance\nBuild observability, lineage, and data-quality guarantees into the platform itself, so pipeline\nhealth, schema drift, and data freshness are monitored, first-class properties rather than tribal knowledge.\nPartner with security and compliance stakeholders to design tenant-isolation and audit controls that hold up under the most stringent enterprise and government scrutiny.\nGuide the long-term modernization of adjacent, high-cost data infrastructure as part of the same overall data strategy.\nTechnical Leadership & Organizational Influence\nServe as the most senior technical authority on data architecture across the engineering\norganization, setting direction that spans multiple teams and multi-year roadmaps.\nTranslate deep technical tradeoffs into clear, executive-ready recommendations, and build\nlasting organizational consensus around them.\nMentor senior and principal engineers across the organization and raise the overall bar for\ndata architecture practice.\nWhat You Bring\n2-3 years of experience as a Distinguished Engineer in distributed systems and data engineering, including a track record of setting data architecture direction at an org-wide, multi-year level.\nDeep, hands-on expertise with distributed database engines that support mixed transactional and analytical workloads at scale - internal architecture, benchmarking methodology, and real production trade-offs, not just theoretical familiarity.\nProven experience architecting real-time data-replication and streaming pipelines at scale, including schema evolution, delivery-guarantee tradeoffs, and multi-consumer fan-out.\nStrong background in multi-tenant SaaS data architecture: tenant isolation models, per-tenant routing, and governed, self-service data access patterns.\nExperience modernizing large-scale data infrastructure - search, logging, or observability - including cost optimization at scale.\nTrack record of running rigorous, benchmark-backed build-vs-buy evaluations and defending the resulting recommendations to executive and security stakeholders.\nComfortable operating across multiple cloud providers and translating platform decisions into cost and compliance outcomes.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5510,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Identity Management","Security Compliance"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-30T17:42:01Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 73 · green card filings: 16","filings_12m":73,"filings_prev_12m":80,"green_card_filings_12m":16,"median_offered_wage_usd":131601,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":49}],"liveness":{"score":61,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.844,"p_room":0.72,"age_days":65,"expected_fill_days":151,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":320000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/saviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/saviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T10:55:07Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14275,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5841},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5841"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsaviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsaviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsaviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/saviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsaviynt-distinguished-software-engineer-data-platform"}]}