data engineering practitioner

• Serve as the technical lead for the data engineering team - guiding development decisions, unblocking engineers, and maintaining the quality bar without direct management authority
• Lead future development efforts of a mature, high-visibility profitability product immediately post-launch
• Participate in architecture design and represent the team in cross-functional architect committee
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers as a core part of your day-to-day - not a side responsibility
• Partner with the Engineering Manager on sprint planning and bodies of work in a two-week Agile cadence
• Interface with business stakeholders to communicate technical concepts clearly and credibly
• Reinforce and model SDLC principles and enterprise engineering best practices across the team

We’’’’’’'’re looking for a seasoned data engineering practitioner - someone who has spent meaningful years in the craft, not someone who recently pivoted into the data space

• 7+ years of focused data engineering experience in enterprise or midsize-to-large organizations
• AWS as your dominant cloud platform, with hands-on experience in the past couple of years - this role lives in the AWS-native dirty details
• Strong Python and PySpark proficiency; the ability to write clean, production-grade code matters more than familiarity with any specific orchestration tool
• Strong SQL - considered a baseline expectation at this level
• Experience with analytical data warehousing; Redshift is the platform in use, though Databricks or Snowflake backgrounds with strong SQL and PySpark transfer well
• A genuine understanding of SDLC principles and why they matter in a mature engineering organization - not just familiarity with the vocabulary
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor technically without holding direct authority over the engineers you’’’’’’'’re guiding
• Communication skills sufficient to hold a room with non-technical business stakeholders - this is not a heads-down-only environment
• A stable employment history - this organization is looking for someone who builds things over time, not someone who moves every 12-18 mo