Lead Full-Stack Platform Engineer – KFI Data Platform

KBRA

Data Engineer creating high-quality software for financial data analysis at KBRA. Collaborating with teams and utilizing modern engineering practices.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureETLFlaskMongoDBPandasPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set and drive the technical vision for the team and partner with peer staff/principal engineers to shape direction across adjacent teams (data platform, reporting, internal and external frontends & apps)
Sit at the table with product and business stakeholders (KBRA Analytics, Bank Product) to translate strategy into a multi-quarter technical roadmap, make build/buy/sunset calls, and own the architectural decisions that come out of them.
Own the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse ingesting 30+ regulatory and market data sources (FFIEC, FDIC, NCUA, FactSet, Xignite, SEC EDGAR, FRED, etc.) via S3 external tables, Dask-based transforms, and SQS / Mongo change-stream event pipelines.
Design and evolve reusable Terraform modules spanning AWS, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, GitLab, Datadog, etc.
Drive CI/CD, IaC, and acceptance-test (BDD/behave) standards across the team.
Mentor engineers and act as code-owner across IaC, data-lake, and application repos.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Expert Python (ex/ Flask, Dash, Dask, Pandas)
Deep experience with AWS (ex. S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, IRSA)
Terraform at module-author level
Advanced SQL and Snowflake (ex. external tables, MVs, performance tuning)
Experience designing high-throughput ETL over diverse formats (ex. Parquet, JSON, CSV, XML, zipped archives)
Supporting legacy systems and responding to incidents

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive benefits and paid time off
Paid family and disability leave
401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
Educational and professional development financial assistance
Employee referral bonus program

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonFlaskDashDaskPandasAWSTerraformSQLSnowflakeETL

Soft Skills

technical visionmentorshipstakeholder communicationarchitectural decision-making