Principal Software Engineer - Data Engineering

Overview

Provide technical leadership across teams within an assigned data platform or data-product domain. Own technical objectives and roadmaps with a timeframe of at least one year, contribute technical input to department planning, and lead major data initiatives involving detailed analysis, work delegation, and review.

The role reports to our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday.

Essential Functions

• Develop and recommend data engineering standards, patterns, and reference architectures for the assigned department or business unit.
• Lead major and complex initiatives involving ingestion, transformation, streaming, serving, and feature-store capabilities.
• Develop and implement governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract standards for assigned platforms and related data domains.
• Present technical recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders and gain agreement on shared approaches.
• Lead lakehouse, data-product, and real-time decisioning initiatives within the assigned domain.
• Define resilient source-adapter patterns, including schema-drift quarantine, versioning, and replay after remediation.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to engineers and review work products for major initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience with cross-team technical leadership.
• Advanced knowledge of Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, or equivalent lakehouse technologies.
• Experience designing batch and streaming architectures using Kafka or equivalent.
• Experience with data governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data mesh, data products, feature stores, or real-time decisioning.
• Experience with vector stores and retrieval-augmented generation data pipelines.
• Retail or merchandising domain familiarity.

Core Competencies

• Communication
• Customer Focus
• Driving for Results
• Positive Approach

Benefits

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!

Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:

• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays

Get Paid Every Day!

Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free. We offer DailyPay so you don’t have to wait for payday to access the money you’ve already worked for. With DailyPay, you can see how much you’ve made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.

You can learn more by visiting https://www.dailypay.com/partners/sprouts-farmers-market/.

Why Sprouts

Grow with us!

If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts! With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer’s market setting. Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

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