Principal Streaming Data Architect
Company websitemotorolasolutions.com (Motorola Solutions, opens in new tab)
Base salary $158,800 to $185,600
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Schaumburg, IL +2 more
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- LocationSchaumburg, IL +2 more
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
All places named
- Schaumburg, IL
- Chicago, IL
- Schaumburg, IL, More...
About this job
Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview
Motorola Solutions creates innovative, mission-critical communication solutions and services that help public safety and commercial customers build safer cities and thriving communities around the world.We look for the most advanced problems solvers - like you - to help us create technologies that rise to the challenges of our customers. To connect firemen to policemen to emergency responders to nurses to specialists to lives saved. To protect communities, grow businesses and make work safer and more efficient. Motorola Solutions is looking for a self motivated individuals to help drive the next generation public safety experience, and to work with a team of top experienced professionals to enable mission critical services and solutions.
Job Description
The Principal Streaming Data Architect will lead the real-time data streaming and processing architecture for our nationwide sensor detection platform. He/She will work with our engineering, product, compliance, and infrastructure teams in developing a stateful, low-latency stream processing engine capable of handling thousands of messages per second from distributed sensors. These real-time data pipelines will be used by our customers to monitor secure perimeters, track asset movements, and ensure public safety.
Assess our existing data ingestion and processing solutions (including Azure Event Hubs and Azure Databricks) and advise on the optimal stream processing frameworks to process high-velocity data efficiently and securely.
Use advanced distributed systems engineering to design and develop stateful stream processing applications that achieve sub-second deduplication of sensor broadcast messages across thousands of sensors.
Design and implement a robust schema registry and event-driven data modeling strategy to ensure consistency and high data quality across all sensor telemetry pipelines.
Build the technical data governance foundation within the streaming architecture, ensuring strict data lineage, metadata management, and auditability of data flows.
Collaborate with Data Science teams to operationalize and deploy real-time machine learning models (e.g., anomaly detection, predictive tracking) directly into the stream processing pipelines.
Develop processes and patterns to consume telemetry from ingestion layers while ensuring fault tolerance, zero data loss, and end-to-end latency from sensor to UI.
Partner with DevSecOps to ensure data-in-transit and in-memory state comply with strict CJIS, FIPS 140-3, and FedRAMP High standards.
Develop the technical skills of junior and mid-level team members by providing hands-on architecture reviews and mentorship.
Work directly with the geospatial data engineering and backend teams to design, implement, and validate pipelines that anonymize data in-stream and feed both real-time UIs and spatial databases.
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Target Base Salary Range: $158,800 - $185,600 USD
Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.
Basic Requirements
Bachelor's Degree OR 10+ years experience.
Must be a US Citizen due to the nature of some contracts.
Travel Requirements
None
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
NoOur U.S. Benefits include:
Incentive Bonus Plans
Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
401K with Company Match
10 Paid Holidays
Generous Paid Time Off Packages
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Paid Parental & Family Leave
and more!
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.
Source: Motorola Solutions on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($158,800) is above 72% of the 94 Data & ML roles in Illinois listed on this site. Their median floor is $137,000; the middle half runs from $116,685 to $160,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingPrincipal Streaming Data Architect$158,800 to $185,600
Research & Development Technical Program Manager$160K to $200K
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Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Chicago Hybrid)$155K to $180K
Senior FPGA / RTL Design Engineer - Signal Processing$155K to $195K
Sr. Commercial Counsel$150K to $180K
Senior SEIT Lead (Product Solutions)$150K to $180K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Principal Streaming Data Architect (this listing) | $158,800 - $185,600 |
| Research & Development Technical Program Manager | $160K - $200K |
| Director, Global Procurement – Software & Cybersecurity | $160K - $190K |
| Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Chicago Hybrid) | $155K - $180K |
| Senior FPGA / RTL Design Engineer - Signal Processing | $155K - $195K |
| Sr. Commercial Counsel | $150K - $180K |
| Senior SEIT Lead (Product Solutions) | $150K - $180K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-08
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Schaumburg, IL, More... • Schaumburg, IL • Chicago, IL
Target Base Salary Range: $158,800 - $185,600 USD
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