Data Engineer

Role Summary
A senior data engineer is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing large-scale, high-reliability data pipelines and lakehouse architectures. This senior-level position involves making key architectural decisions and implementing end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and delivery solutions. The role requires a strong foundation in both data engineering and software engineering principles to deliver scalable, modular, and testable data systems that support analytics and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain ELT pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and delivery across multiple layers (bronze, silver, gold).
• Implement incremental data loads, change-data-capture (CDC), merge/upsert, and idempotent pipeline patterns to ensure data reliability and repeatability.
• Define and apply data architecture patterns such as layered lakehouse structures, domain-oriented datasets, and semantic models aligned with business goals.
• Engineer physical data schemas including partitioning strategies, partition key selection, clustering, micro-partitioning, and compaction for optimal performance and cost efficiency.
• Develop curated datasets and data marts to facilitate analytics, reporting, and self-service business intelligence.
• Implement data quality checks, observability, lineage tracing, and monitoring to ensure data integrity and SLA adherence.
• Optimize query and system performance on cloud data platforms like Snowflake by leveraging tasks, streams, compute sizing, and query tuning.
• Manage Lakehouse table formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake) on object storage, including schema evolution, maintenance, and versioning.
• Collaborate with data architects, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective data solutions.
• Lead design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to engineering standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Automate data pipeline deployment, monitor data lifecycle, and apply DevOps principles such as CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10+ years of experience in data engineering or related software engineering roles with a focus on data systems.
• Strong expertise in designing and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and lakehouse architectures.
• Proficiency with cloud data platforms like Snowflake or similar, including performance tuning and resource management.
• Experience with data lake formats such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake, including schema evolution and maintenance.
• Knowledge of data pipeline patterns including CDC, upsert, merge, and incremental loads.
• Familiarity with data quality, observability, lineage, and monitoring tools and practices.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and translate complex requirements into scalable solutions.
• Proven experience in mentoring junior engineers and leading architecture reviews.
• Robust understanding of DevOps practices related to data pipelines, including automation with CI/CD tools.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Publishing Pay Range: $92.00 - $95.00 Hourly
This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.