Senior Data Engineer Data Platform
Job Summary
This is a remote position.
We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer / Data Platform Lead to build and own the first practical version of our internal data platform.
This is a hands-on builder role not just reporting governance or pure ML.
You will design and implement:
- Data ingestion pipelines
- Raw staged and curated data layers
- Document-heavy workflows (OCR parsing)
- Data normalization and schema design
- Metadata lineage and data structure standards
- Datasets for dashboards and internal AI
Key Responsibilities
- Design build and improve AWS-based data platform architecture
- Develop ingestion workflows from multiple systems and data sources
- Handle structured and unstructured data including document processing
- Normalize and transform data into usable schemas
- Define metadata naming conventions and lineage tracking
- Prepare datasets for dashboards analytics and internal AI use
- Implement data quality checks and validation processes
- Document data structures pipelines and workflows
- Work closely with engineering leadership on integrations and priorities
- 5 years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles
- Strong hands-on experience with data pipelines and platform ownership
- Strong AWS experience
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills
- Experience with structured and unstructured data
- Experience with ingestion normalization and dataset preparation
- Strong English communication skills (written and spoken)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced evolving environment
- Experience with data lake or lakehouse architectures
- Experience with OCR or document-heavy workflows
- Experience preparing data for AI or retrieval-based systems
- Experience in regulated industries (fintech healthtech etc.)
- Experience building analytics-ready datasets
- Experience mentoring junior team members
- AWS Glue Athena or similar tools
- Data lineage and metadata tooling
- Document extraction / parsing systems
- Data quality monitoring
- Exposure to credit or financial data
We want a senior builder-owner who can:
- Work with messy real-world data
- Prioritize and sequence work effectively
- Build practical solutions (not just design them)
- Communicate clearly in a remote async environment
- Work-from-home
Required Skills:
Qualifications (Must-Have) - 5 years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles - Strong hands-on experience with data pipelines and platform ownership - Strong AWS experience -Strong SQL and data modeling skills -Experience with structured and unstructured data - Experience with ingestion normalization and dataset preparation - Strong English communication skills (written and spoken) - Ability to work in a fast-paced evolving environment
Required Education:
Bachelors Degree