Requisition Number: 78639
Role PurposeCorning is seeking a Senior Staff Data Architect Engineer to lead enterprise data architecture supporting R&D and other large business domains. This role will define scalable data models, architecture standards, and data-product patterns that allow teams to bring complex data together in consistent, reliable, and reusable ways.
The ideal candidate brings deep architecture and data-engineering experience, particularly across large data platforms, data ingestion, modeling, transformation, governance, and enterprise-scale implementation. Direct R&D experience is helpful but not required; strong architecture experience in manufacturing, finance, pharmaceuticals, or another complex data domain is equally relevant.
Key Responsibilities- Lead the design and evolution of enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, canonical models, shared dimensions, and reusable data products
• Define scalable data-ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving patterns across modern cloud or lakehouse platforms
• Establish architecture standards for data products, pipelines, documentation, versioning, lineage, lifecycle management, and CI/CD-enabled reference implementations
• Partner with data engineers, product owners, analysts, governance teams, security teams, and business stakeholders to translate complex needs into practical data designs
• Embed data quality, access controls, PII handling, compliance, metadata, and governance requirements into models and pipelines
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentorship to data engineers and analysts
• Evaluate emerging architecture approaches, including lakehouse, data mesh, semantic-layer, streaming, and event-driven patterns
• Communicate architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Experiences/Education - Required- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Seven or more years of relevant data and technical experience, including at least four years in a Data Architect, Senior Data Engineer, or comparable role focused on data design and architecture
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise data models for analytics and operational reporting, including dimensional, normalized, data-vault, or comparable modeling approaches
• Strong hands-on experience designing or guiding end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud or modern data platforms
• Experience with Databricks or another large-scale cloud or lakehouse data platform
• Experience with dbt or a comparable data-transformation framework
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python, Scala, or another data-engineering language
• Experience with Git, DevOps tooling, and CI/CD practices
• Ability to work in the United States without current or future immigration sponsorship and meet export-control eligibility requirements
Experiences/Education - Desired- Experience with Delta Lake, medallion architecture, data-product design, data lineage, metadata, or cataloging tools
• Experience with streaming or event-driven data architecture using Kafka, Kinesis, or comparable technologies
• Familiarity with data mesh, domain-oriented architecture, data fabric, semantic layers, or related modern architecture patterns
• Experience developing architecture in a large manufacturing, R&D, pharmaceutical, financial, or similarly complex data environment
• Experience working with distributed or international technical teams
• Ability to work from Sullivan Park is preferred; highly qualified candidates may be considered for a remote arrangement
This position does not support immigration sponsorship. The range for this position is $129,143.00 - $177,572.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.
A job that shapes a life. Corning offers you the total package. Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one.
- Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win.
- As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career. Combined with matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, Corning's total contributions to your retirement accounts can reach between 7% and 12% of your pay, depending on your age and years of service.
- Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family.
- Getting paid for our work is important, but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That's why Corning offers a recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make exceptional contributions.
