Senior Data Engineer
InformaticaBase Salary
$173k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate business and product needs into scalable data models, metrics, analyses, and technical solutions.
- Design, build, and scale pipelines and data models integrating multiple sources into trusted datasets with measurable quality and predictable SLA performance.
- Own the lifecycle of metrics, analytical models, and data products from exploration through production, adoption, and maintenance.
- Lead data governance, management, strategy, and standardization initiatives across teams and domains.
- Establish data engineering best practices and promote trusted metrics and self-service analytics across Slack.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and hands-on guidance to engineers.
- Use AI-assisted development while maintaining code quality, data quality, and maintainability.
Requirements
- 8+ years of overall software engineering or data engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on data architecture, data modeling, data management, and metadata management experience.
- Deep SQL expertise and experience designing reliable, scalable pipelines and transformations for large and complex datasets.
- Experience architecting and optimizing data models, schemas, and processing workflows for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability in modern data warehouses.
- Proficiency in at least one data engineering programming language, such as Python or Java.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale data technologies including Snowflake, Spark, Airflow, and Hive.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL data stores and data modeling approaches including logging, columnar, star, snowflake, and dimensional models.
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks, software development lifecycle practices, and Agile methodologies.
- Strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder collaboration, autonomy, and ability to influence technical direction.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship experience, or relevant professional experience, is preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The posted annual base salary range is $172,500-$260,100, or $207,800-$285,800 in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas; bonus, equity, and benefits are excluded.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com