Our company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise. 

What You’ll Do

The Sr. Principal Architect at the Senior Director level is one of Teradata's most senior technical leaders—a role that sits at the intersection of deep technical mastery and organizational impact. You will serve as a cross-domain architecture authority for Teradata's Core Platform, accountable for the coherence and strategic fitness of our overall technical architecture across the Vantage platform, AI engineering capabilities, and cloud integration layer. 

• Define and steward Teradata's enterprise-wide technical architecture vision, ensuring coherent design across compute, storage, query processing, AI/ML pipelines, and cloud integration layers. 
• Lead architectural strategy for Teradata's highest-complexity, highest-risk platform initiatives—including the Artemis data lakehouse, Agentic Platform AI workloads, and MCP Integration framework. 
• Serve as Teradata's primary external technical voice in industry forums, standards bodies (e.g., cloud data alliances, open-source governance boards), and with strategic enterprise customers and partners. 
• Chair the Enterprise Architecture Review Board, establishing architectural principles, evaluating major design proposals, and resolving cross-team technical conflicts with speed and clarity. 
• Develop and operationalize a comprehensive AI productivity framework for the Core Platform engineering org—defining tooling standards, measurement baselines, and a roadmap for AI-assisted design, testing, and documentation. 
• Mentor a portfolio of Principal and Senior Staff Architects; serve as a career sponsor and technical role model for Teradata's most senior engineering talent. 
• Produce landmark technical assets—platform blueprints, architecture whitepapers, technology evaluations—that are used directly in Board reporting, investor communications, and enterprise sales cycles. 
• Partner with the CPO and Chief Data Officer to ensure architecture investments align with Teradata's five-year AI platform strategy and business outcomes. 
• foundational AI skills to explore and implement ways AI can enhance productivity, innovation, and impact across our workforce 

Who You’ll Work With

You will report to the VP of Engineering. You will work across the full ELT-1 engineering leadership team including Raj Shukla (AI Engineering), Subhadip B. (Core Engineering), and coordinate architectural governance across all Core Platform disciplines. You will engage regularly with enterprise accounts at the CTO and Chief Architect level, participate in Teradata's technical advisory boards, and represent Teradata's engineering vision to investors and analysts. Our team is distributed globally and holds itself to the highest standards of technical rigor, intellectual honesty, and AI-forward engineering practice. 

What makes you a qualified candidate

• 20+ years of software or systems engineering experience, with 8+ years in a principal, distinguished, or fellow-level architectural role at a software product company or hyperscaler. 
• Recognized technical authority in at least two of the following domains: cloud-native data platforms, distributed query processing, AI/ML infrastructure, elastic compute architecture, or enterprise integration. 
• Demonstrated ability to set and communicate a multi-year technical vision that influences both internal engineering decisions and external market positioning. 
• Proven track record of deploying AI tools, LLM-assisted workflows, and automated engineering practices at an organizational scale—with measurable productivity outcomes. 
• Outstanding communication skills with experience presenting to Boards of Directors, institutional investors, and enterprise C-suite executives 

What You’ll Bring

• Prior experience as a Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, or Fellow at a major cloud, data, or enterprise software company. 
• Deep familiarity with Teradata Vantage, competitive platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery), and the evolving landscape of AI-native data platforms. 
• Experience in standards bodies, open-source project governance, or public technical thought leadership (published research, conference keynotes, industry whitepapers). 
• Ability to operate as both a hands-on technical reviewer—diving into code, design docs, and performance profiles—and a high-altitude strategic communicator. 
• A passion for building AI-forward engineering cultures and demonstrated success integrating AI tools into the core of how engineering teams operate day to day. 
• Track record of attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional technical talent in a globally distributed environment. 
• A passion for how AI can unlock potential to help our teams, our customers, and our communities achieve great things 

Why We Think You'll Love Teradata 

We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are. 

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