Senior Data Engineer
AssetMark, Inc.1 month ago
Charlotte, NC, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$170k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision and target architecture for AssetMark’s modern Azure and Snowflake data platform.
- Design and implement scalable, resilient ELT/ETL pipelines for mission-critical financial workloads.
- Write, optimize, and review complex Python and SQL code and solve distributed-systems challenges.
- Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, coding, testing, documentation, and pull-request practices.
- Integrate data solutions into CI/CD and DevOps processes using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Own DataOps strategy and reliability, including data quality, observability, freshness, lineage, cataloging, SLAs, SLOs, incident response, and post-mortems.
- Implement financial-data governance and security controls including PII masking, tokenization, role-based access control, auditing, and access management.
- Optimize Snowflake compute, Azure storage, and data-platform cost efficiency through FinOps practices.
- Architect data flows and infrastructure for AI/ML model training, inference, MLOps, feature sets, and GenAI initiatives.
- Mentor data engineers, lead technical design sessions, communicate trade-offs to executives, and guide build-versus-buy decisions.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of progressive experience in Data Engineering or Software Engineering, with significant cloud data platform experience.
- Expert proficiency in Python and advanced SQL, including production pipeline design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Deep experience with Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, Snowpark, and scalable Microsoft Azure data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of dbt, Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, workflow orchestration, ELT/ETL, and CI/CD automation.
- Experience with data modeling and architecture methods including Lakehouse patterns, dimensional modeling, Data Vault, lineage, cataloging, and platform integration.
- Hands-on DataOps and reliability experience involving observability, quality monitoring, testing, freshness and volume monitoring, SLAs/SLOs, incident response, and operational governance.
- Knowledge of financial-data security and compliance practices including PII masking, tokenization, role-based access control, auditing, and governance.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML data architecture, model training and inference, MLOps, feature engineering, Generative AI, LLM-enabled data products, Snowflake Cortex, and related open-source frameworks.
- Experience leading technical design sessions, defining architectures, establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and remaining hands-on.
- Experience operating production-grade data systems with large-scale, complex datasets and business-critical workloads.
- Financial Services or Asset Management experience is required.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- Relevant Azure, Snowflake, data engineering, cloud architecture, or related certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $170,000-$190,000, with additional variable incentive compensation and competitive benefits.
- Hybrid work schedule required for candidates who can work near the Charlotte, North Carolina office.
- Flex time or paid time off and sick time off.
- 401(k) with a 6% employer match.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HDHP or PPO options.
- Employer HSA contribution for HDHP participants.
- Volunteer time off, career development and recognition programs, and fitness reimbursement.
About AssetMark, Inc.
AssetMark builds a wealth management platform for independent financial advisors, offering investment solutions, portfolio management, planning software, and outsourced operations through affiliates like AssetMark Trust Company, Voyant, and Adhesion Wealth. The company earns fees on assets and services delivered via its technology and advisory platform. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Concord, California, AssetMark is a registered investment adviser and is owned by private equity firm GTCR.