Astronomer Architect - Apache Airflow

Hiring Alert | Astronomer Architect – Apache Airflow 

Location: Plano, TX (Onsite)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Required: 10–15 Years

Must-Have Skills:

• Apache Airflow Architecture, Administration & Production Support

• Airflow on Kubernetes

• Airflow DAG Design, Testing & Optimization

• Python Development, Custom Operators & Hooks

• Kubernetes, Helm Charts & Container Orchestration

• Terraform & Infrastructure as Code

• GitOps, Argo CD / Flux & CI/CD Pipelines

• Airflow High Availability, Upgrades & Performance Tuning

• Observability Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, StatsD & Centralized Logging

• Workflow Reliability, Idempotency, Retries & Backfills

• Dynamic Task Mapping, Deferrable Operators & Sensors

• AWS / Azure / GCP Cloud Platforms

• Data Platforms: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Spark, EMR / Dataproc

• Security: SSO / OIDC, RBAC, Secrets Management & IAM

• Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis & Runbook Automation

• Enterprise-Scale Workflow Orchestration & Platform Engineering

Preferred Experience:

• Airflow Migration and Multi-Scheduler Ecosystems

• OpenLineage, Marquez & Data Quality Frameworks

• dbt Core / Cloud Orchestration

• Multi-Region High Availability, Disaster Recovery & Backup Strategies

• Cost Optimization and Scheduler / Worker Capacity Planning

• Internal Developer Platforms and Self-Service Pipeline Tooling

• Apache Airflow Contributions and Airflow 2.7 Features

• Policy as Code: OPA, Gatekeeper & Conftest

• Strong Cross-Functional Collaboration, Technical Leadership & Mentoring

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.