Senior Data Engineer

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Job Responsibilities

• Own assigned pipelines end-to-end across ingestion, transformations, and serving layers 

• Design for retries, backfills, and safe reprocessing with predictable recovery paths 

• Build/maintain scalable ELT/ETL jobs and patterns; ensure recoverability and safe rollback where applicable 

• Implement incident response patterns: alerting, triage, post-incident fixes, and preventive improvements 

• Establish and enforce branching strategy, PR/code reviews, and “no deploy without review” for critical assets 

• Implement/maintain CI/CD for data workloads, including environment promotion and release/change management 

• Ensure changes are traceable with documented approvals, rollback plans, and clear change notes 

• Define and enforce platform standards where needed (naming conventions, repo structure, documentation/runbook expectations) 

• Implement data quality tests (unit + integration) and anomaly checks for critical models and datasets 

• Enforce “no deploy without tests” for high-value pipelines/models; expand test coverage over time 

• Define and operationalize quality thresholds (freshness, completeness, accuracy proxies) with alerts and dashboards 

• Detect and manage schema drift and breaking changes proactively 

• Instrument monitoring/alerting for freshness, volume anomalies, schema drift, failed jobs, and cost spikes 

• Improve performance and cost efficiency through incremental models, partitioning/clustering, and workload tuning 

• Track reliability and operational KPIs with the Platform Lead (pipeline success %, SLA adherence, MTTR, defect escape rate, cost per workload) 

• Create and maintain runbooks, recovery procedures, dependency notes, and support handoff documentation 

• Automate common operations where possible (backfills, reprocessing, dependency management) 

• Ensure checks-and-balances via detailed documentation, peer review, and standard operating process adherence 

• Work closely with Analytics Engineering / BI to ensure reliable downstream consumption and predictable release timing 

• Partner with Platform Lead on standards, delivery cadence, and KPI reporting 

• Partner with Governance/Quality and Security/Compliance on controls, lineage, access/logging, and audit evidence 

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience operating production data pipelines end-to-end (ingestion → transformation → serving) 

• Proven SDLC discipline in data environments (Git workflows, reviews, CI/CD, environment promotion, change/release) 

• Hands-on experience implementing data quality testing and measurable controls in production 

• Strong SQL plus a general-purpose language for data engineering (e.g., Python) 

• Experience with orchestration and transformation tooling (tool-agnostic; must be able to implement standards) 

• Monitoring/observability fundamentals (alerting, dashboards, on-call readiness, MTTR reduction) 

• Performance and cost optimization patterns for warehouse/data workloads 

• Ownership mindset: accountable for reliability outcomes, not just code delivery 

• Ships incremental value weekly; prefers small, low-risk releases over big-bang changes 

• Strong documentation habits and comfort enforcing process without bureaucracy 

• Collaborative team player with clear written communication; escalates early when blocked 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in regulated/audit-heavy environments; familiarity with audit evidence capture and control design 

• Experience implementing lineage/cataloging and governance workflows 

• FinOps mindset for warehouse cost optimization and usage controls 

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Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including: 

• Medical, dental, vision

• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time

• Flexible work arrangements

• 401K with Profit Sharing

• Wellness program

• Generous parental leave

• 11 paid holidays

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