Lead Data & Software Engineer
Ovative Group2 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy, priorities, architecture, patterns, tooling, and trade-offs for the client delivery platform.
- Improve the platform’s speed, reliability, usability, and ability to scale across client rollouts.
- Partner with Product teams and senior stakeholders to translate field experience into requirements and workable designs.
- Own decisions involving Dagster, Databricks, engineering standards, testing, security, deployment, and documentation.
- Lead valuable proofs of concept and recommend whether to productize or discontinue them.
- Drive system-level fixes for recurring problems across clients.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and direct coaching.
- Serve as the technical escalation point for difficult client situations and represent delivery engineering to client-facing and executive leaders.
- Evaluate new tools, technologies, and AI development practices for team adoption.
- Write code for the most critical or ambiguous work.
Requirements
- 7+ years of data and software engineering experience.
- Expert-level SQL and Python skills.
- Deep experience designing data platforms and pipelines at scale.
- Experience with a major cloud platform, ideally GCP or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration, including tools, agents, and workflows.
- Ability to influence Product teams and senior stakeholders and shape what gets built.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising a team’s technical bar.
- Preferred experience with Databricks and Dagster.
- Preferred history of taking proofs of concept to production or deciding not to.
- Preferred experience owning data architecture for a platform area.
- Preferred experience with marketing, analytics, or customer data.
- Preferred experience on a client delivery, implementation, or professional services team.
Benefits
- Annual bonus opportunity of up to 25% of base salary and competitive health coverage.
- Hybrid work from the Minneapolis, Chicago, or New York office on set days each week, with remote work available on other days.
- Access to office spaces in Minneapolis, New York City, and Chicago.
- Frequent paid travel to the Minneapolis headquarters for company and team events and in-person collaboration.
- Generous paid vacation, 401(k) match, health insurance including same-sex partners, family formation benefits, mobile phone and data stipend, sabbatical program, charitable giving match, and Shenanigan’s Day.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering