2 months ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement end-to-end modern data platforms, including warehouses, data lakes, table formats, ELT patterns, semantic layers, and orchestration.
- Design data models for business, analytics, and AI consumption using approaches such as star schema, Data Vault, and OBT.
- Build and operate scalable production data pipelines and streaming systems with attention to schema evolution, backpressure, and exactly-once semantics.
- Develop data infrastructure that supports dashboards, analysts, applications, agents, and natural-language data queries.
- Lead customer projects, scope requirements, implement solutions, present architecture decisions, and explain tradeoffs to technical and business stakeholders.
- Work directly with the CEO and a senior team while owning architecture decisions and delivering practical prototypes and solutions.
Requirements
- Significant experience building production data systems with senior-level ownership of architecture decisions.
- Hands-on production experience implementing Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
- Deep understanding of modern data architecture, including data warehouses, data lakes, orchestration, transformation frameworks, and semantic layers.
- Experience building scalable and secure data pipelines using dbt or a similar transformation framework and AWS or GCP.
- Strong knowledge of data modeling approaches including Kimball, star schema, Data Vault, and related patterns.
- Production experience implementing streaming pipelines with Kafka, Flink, Redpanda, or similar technologies.
- Understanding of semantic layers, metadata, governance, and reliable data consumption by LLMs and agents.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to present architecture decisions and tradeoffs to engineers, business leaders, and client stakeholders.
- Business orientation, sound technical judgment, and willingness to write queries, sketch schemas, and build prototypes.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $140,000-$160,000 USD, with additional bonus eligibility.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- 401(k) plan.
- Compensation tiers vary by location, with international compensation aligned to local market conditions and cost of living.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering