Lead architecture, development, and optimization of a cloud-native data platform. Design high-volume batch and streaming pipelines, optimize data processing across AWS, Snowflake, Redshift, and Athena, and implement Iceberg-based data management. Establish security, privacy, observability, and DataOps practices while mentoring engineers, guiding technical direction, collaborating with data science teams, and delivering scalable petabyte-level data infrastructure.
Work Location: United States
Work Mode : Remote
Pay Range :$85K-$140K /Yr Base + Annual Bonus
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Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Senior Full-Stack Data Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and optimization of a next-generation data platform. This is a critical role for an individual with over 10 years of deep data engineering expertise, capable of driving technical direction, mentoring team members, and delivering high-impact solutions in a fast-paced project environment..
Responsibilities- Platform Strategy & Leadership
- Technical Direction: Define and champion the architectural roadmap and best practices for our end-to-end data pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across the platform.
- Team Mentorship & Project Velocity: Act as a primary technical mentor, guiding a team of engineers, conducting code reviews, and aggressively driving the project timeline to ensure rapid delivery of data products.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Data Scientists, Analysts, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust, production-ready data solutions.
- Collaboration with Data Scientists and ML Engineers: Data Accessibility, Support for Model Development, Data Quality Assurance
- Data Pipeline Development & Management
- Ingestion & Transformation: Design, build, and optimize high-volume data ingestion and transformation jobs using tools like dbt Core, AWS Glue, ensuring data quality and integrity.
- Workflow Orchestration: Develop and maintain sophisticated data pipelines using orchestrators such as Dagster, focusing on modularity and reusability.
- Streaming & Real-time Integration: Implement and manage real-time data flows utilizing Confluent platforms or native AWS streaming services (e.g., Kinesis) for immediate data availability.
- Data Security and Privacy: Data Anonymization, Compliance with Regulations
- Be well versed with DataOps and DevOps fundamentals
- Assist and drive the Data Ecosystem Management & Monitoring
- Open Table Formats & Management: Implement and maintain the Iceberg open table format, utilizing tools for efficient schema evolution and data management.
- Compute Engine Optimization: Optimize query performance and cost efficiency across our primary compute engines: Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Athena.
- Observability & Monitoring: Integrate comprehensive monitoring and observability into all pipelines using Splunk to ensure high availability, rapidly identify bottlenecks, and troubleshoot production issues
- 10+ Years of hands-on, progressive experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or a closely related Full-Stack Data role
- Deep conceptual understanding of core data engineering principles, ETL/ELT patterns, and metadata management
- Proven track record of building and managing petabyte-scale data infrastructure in a cloud-native environment
- Insurance industry experience preferred but not mandatory
- Tools:
- Cloud Environment: AWS (S3, IAM, VPC, etc.)
- Experience with Talend, dbt Core, Iceberg, AWS Glue Catalog, Snowflake, Redshift, Athena, Splunk, AWS streaming services, Git
Strong SQL, Pyspark and Python
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