Principal Data Platform Engineer Hybrid

About Us

EDF power solutions North America has been providing clean energy solutions throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico since 1987. We are a market-leading independent power producer and service provider, serving utilities, corporations, industries, communities, institutions, and investors with reliable, low-carbon energy solutions that help meet growing demand.

From developing and building scalable wind (onshore and offshore), solar, storage (battery and pumped storage hydro), smart EV charging, microgrids, green hydrogen, and transmission projects, to maximizing performance and profitability through skilled operations and maintenance and innovative asset optimization, our teams deliver expert solutions along the entire value chain—from origination to commercial operation.

Be a part of an innovative and collaborative team environment that fosters our goal of delivering renewable solutions to lead the transition to a sustainable energy future.

• Competitive bonus incentives. This position is eligible for our annual bonus program.
• Comprehensive health coverage. We provide low-cost health & wellness coverage for employees and their eligible dependents.
• Rewarding 401k. We provide a generous matching contribution.

• Favourable paid time off programs, including paid parental leave after one year of service.
• Rewarding learning & career development and advancement opportunities.
• Supportive mentorship & buddy programs.

The full pay range for this role is $120,800 to $201,300 annually. We generally base our salary decisions on factors including but not limited to, relevant work and leadership experience, education, demonstrated performance, internal equity, and in some cases, geographic location.

The Principal Engineer, Data Platform both informs and implements the data architecture vision, delivering a modern cloud data platform that includes infrastructure, data pipelines, and analytics readiness. The role owns end-to-end data flow from source systems through Snowflake to consumption-ready data products, guiding engineers and managing business stakeholders for analytics, integration, and reporting. The role designs scalable, reliable data architectures that deliver measurable business value while creating and aligning with industry-wide design standards and quality criteria.

The Principal Engineer Data Platform informs the company’s data architecture criteria through influence and leadership and translates the vision into actionable designs. This role actively contributes to and grows the company’s architecture community, providing feedback to improve the company’s architecture, processes, and governance. This role combines architecture, platform engineering and analytics engineering to deliver a complete data solution; proposing designs that reflect best architecture and engineering practices and industry standards.

While final architectural decisions remain with the architecture function, this role acts as a peer and contributes richly to the quality of decisions made in the interest of architecture and engineered solutions. The Principal Engineer collaborates closely with several cross-functional interests: SAP Analytics Engineers, Integration Engineers, Analytics and Insights Engineers, Product Management, and Business Stakeholders to translate strategy into concrete data solutions and value.

This position is Hybrid based in San Diego, CA (Rancho Bernardo). Hybrid is three days a week in office, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

• Designs and Implements cloud-native data integrations using APIs and AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda) to bring data into Snowflake from various sources. This role…