Principal Data Engineer
New Balance Athletics, Inc.1 month ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$139k - $208k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of reliable data pipelines spanning batch, streaming, event-driven, on-premises, and cloud sources.
- Build and optimize multi-source integrations, ETL/ELT processes, data models, and reusable governed data products across business domains.
- Define engineering standards and lead technical decisions concerning scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, performance, and cost.
- Use AI coding agents and LLM-powered techniques to improve pipeline development, testing, data-quality validation, and source-to-target reconciliation.
- Partner with stakeholders and data consumers to translate business requirements into technical specifications, integration methods, transformations, validation controls, and operational expectations.
- Document architectures, standards, operating procedures, technology decisions, and runbooks; support production issues and participate in on-call support.
- Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, communicate risks, and guide cross-functional engineering decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 11–13 years of experience in data warehouse and data engineering development, including enterprise cloud data pipelines.
- Expert proficiency in SQL and Python and deep experience with Snowflake, Snowpark, performance optimization, and cost-conscious data engineering.
- Experience architecting complex pipelines and integrations across multiple source systems, with strong knowledge of data architecture, modeling, quality, observability, security, and the software development life cycle.
- Experience with Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake Storage or Azure Blob Storage.
- Experience with dbt, GitHub, GitHub Actions, automated testing, and software delivery practices.
- Experience applying AI coding agents and LLM-powered techniques to pipeline development, testing, data-quality validation, or ELT reconciliation.
- Strong communication, troubleshooting, analytical, influencing, negotiation, mentoring, judgment, confidentiality, and adaptability skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401(k) benefits are available for regular associates.
- Benefits include online learning and development courses, tuition reimbursement, $100 monthly student loan support, mentorship programs, a $1,000 yearly lifestyle reimbursement, four weeks of vacation, 12 holidays, and generous parental leave.
- The role follows a hybrid schedule with in-office work three days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, plus four weeks of Work from Anywhere per calendar year.
- The position is based at the Boston, Massachusetts headquarters.
About New Balance Athletics, Inc.
New Balance Athletics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells performance and lifestyle footwear, apparel, and accessories for athletes, teams, and everyday consumers. The privately held company, founded in 1906 and headquartered in Brighton, Massachusetts, distributes through its own e-commerce and retail stores as well as wholesale partners worldwide. Its portfolio spans running, training, soccer, baseball, and kids lines, with select footwear produced in the U.S. and U.K. under dedicated programs.