principal data engineer(retail client experience)

PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER(Retail)

100% REMOTE

12 MONTHS CONTRACT

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL pipelines for structured and semi-structured data supporting insights use cases, growth metrics, live event analytics, and other external-facing data sets.
• Design and implement data models using industry best practices that capture a complete ecosystem view of user experiences, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and long-term usability.
• Architect and implement robust, maintainable, and high-performance data solutions.
• Automate workflows to reduce manual intervention and enhance data processing efficiency, including automation for content, growth, and live event analytics.
• Mentor data engineers across all levels, setting best practices and fostering technical growth.
• Optimize query performance and resolve pipeline bottlenecks to improve data accessibility.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to advance data engineering capabilities.
• Support cost optimization by ensuring scalable and efficient data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Contribute to the organization’s data engineering discipline by shaping infrastructure, standards, tooling, and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years experience in data engineering or a related field.
• Strong Expertise in big-data technologies, including Python, GoLang, Spark, Scala, SQL, and tools like Airflow and dbt.
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS or Google Cloud Platform) and Databricks.
• Expertise in designing efficient and scalable data models with large data sets across multiple teams and in collaboration with insights or data stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, analytics, and product teams.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding other engineers