Velir

Senior Data Engineer

Velir

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $155,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowApacheAWSAzureBigQueryCloudETLKafkaPythonRustScalaSparkSQL

About the role

  • Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a top-tier portfolio of clients, ranging from the world’s largest non-profits to Fortune 500 brands
  • Senior Data Engineers are responsible for being interpersonal force multipliers across the organization, augmenting our internal capabilities to effectively manage and leverage client data effectively
  • Work closely with functional leadership and data solutions team members to understand common client business needs and identify and develop data engineering solutions
  • May be embedded on a client team to unblock and upskill them
  • Tools & Technologies: SQL, Python, Apache Spark, dbt, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Prefect
  • Technical Skills: data movement, data warehousing, programming, technical management, data infrastructure
  • Bonus: Data modeling and transformation, MLOps

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Data Engineer or related role, with a focus on designing and developing data pipelines
  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL. Experience with Scala and Rust is a plus but not required
  • Deep knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/ELT processes
  • Intermediate / expert proficiency with common data integration / orchestration platforms (e.g., Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow)
  • Deep experience with at least one cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar)
  • Experience with streaming solutions such as Spark Streaming, Kafka, or Flink is desirable but not required
  • Strong experience with at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Familiarity with machine learning operations (MLOps) techniques and platforms is a plus but not required
  • Experience mentoring and advising other engineers
  • Ability to define, explain, and sell long-term vision for technical architecture, technical approaches / procedures, etc
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills