Principal Data Engineer
Skills
DevopsAmazon Web ServicesAnalyticsBusiness Continuity PlanningDownstream Oil And GasEasily AdaptableEvolution
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 8+ years in data or analytics engineering with ownership of complex business-critical systems
- Hands-on AWS experience with deployments workload management cloud infrastructure and the modern data stack
- Experience with Snowflake dbt Dagster Databricks and Terraform
- Track record of leading platform migrations deprecations or upgrades across shared systems
- Ability to design secure reusable patterns for data ingestion access control and platform automation
- Experience with DevOps practices data governance or FinOps
- Ability to break down ambiguous cross-functional problems and lead implementation from design to deployment
- Clear communication across engineers analysts product managers and business leaders
- Drive to mentor others set standards and improve systems
Nice to have
- Challenges the status quo
- Systems thinker
- Strong communicator
- Resilient
- Scale-minded
- Mentor-minded
Day to day
- Architect and evolve the data platform that powers critical product and business decisions
- Lead platform modernization by deprecating legacy workflows and migrating pipelines to scalable patterns
- Drive infrastructure, governance, and FinOps improvements across Snowflake, Dagster, and dbt while partnering cross-functionally