Senior Data Engineer
Life.Church9 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain reliable data pipelines for analytics, experimentation, and decision-making.
- Plan, implement, and operate ingestion, ETL/ELT, integration, batch, and real-time data workflows.
- Design data systems and schemas that support predictive modeling, experimentation, and LLM-driven applications.
- Partner with product, platform, analytics, software engineering, ML, and data science teams.
- Advance data governance, stewardship, privacy, security, data quality, testing, monitoring, and alerting practices.
- Optimize pipeline performance, queries, and storage for scale and efficiency.
- Create documentation, diagrams, and data definitions for cross-functional users.
- Own data initiatives from concept through production with minimal direction.
- Mentor junior and mid-level data engineers through code reviews, pairing, and guidance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of data or software engineering experience building production-grade data systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data, or a related field.
- Strong SQL proficiency, including complex query writing and performance optimization.
- Experience with Python, Go, Java, or similar general-purpose programming languages.
- Hands-on experience with data warehouse design and modeling.
- Experience with pipeline orchestration, ingestion, streaming, APIs, and cloud-based data systems.
- Experience preparing datasets and supporting data flows for model training, evaluation, and inference.
- Understanding of feature engineering, LLM concepts, embeddings, prompt inputs and outputs, vector storage, or retrieval-augmented generation.
- Ability to independently lead complex data projects and contribute to technical direction.
- Experience mentoring others and collaborating with technical and non-technical partners.
- Advanced certification and familiarity with GitLab, Jira, Amplitude, Backstage, or Notion are preferred.
Benefits
- Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Employer-paid vacation, sick time, and other qualifying leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Employer-provided life insurance with additional coverage available for purchase.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage for qualified full-time staff.
- Wellness and mental health benefits.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching and discretionary contributions.
- Professional development funding.
- Casual dress and work environment.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Life.Church
Life.Church is a nonprofit, multi-site Christian church with locations across the U.S. and a global Church Online presence. It builds and maintains digital ministry tools, including the YouVersion Bible App and the Church Online Platform, offered free to individuals and other churches. Funded primarily by tithes and donations, the organization was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Edmond, Oklahoma.