Senior Data Engineer

Senior DATA ENGINEER at MOTOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS

About MOTOR Information Systems (Hearst)
MOTOR is the industry leader in automotive data and insights. We power the aftermarket ecosystem with some of the most comprehensive datasets in the worldand were investing heavily in modernizing our data platform to support the next generation of products and AI-driven capabilities.

The Opportunity
Were looking for a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to take a leading role in architecting designing building and evolving our AWS-based data platform. This is not a maintenance roleyoull have meaningful technical ownership and influence over how data is architected processed and delivered across our systems and product suite.

Youll tackle large-scale complex data challenges while driving architectural decisions establishing engineering best practices and designing solutions for scalability reliability performance and cost efficiency. As a senior member of the team youll collaborate across engineering and product provide technical guidance and mentorship and help shape the evolution of our platform toward a more modern scalable and intelligent data architecture.

Required Experience (Must Have)
Expert Python & SQL Developer
Strong AWS Experience (Lambda Glue State Machines Fargate Cloud Formation RedShift)
Strong Experience with Semi-Structured Data (XML CSV JSON Parquet)
Strong Automation Experience
Experience with Databricks (Delta Lake Notebooks SQL Analytics)
Experience with Kubernetes (Cluster Orchestration Container Networking Pod Management)
Experience with DevOps CI/CD Deployment Orchestration (Octopus Deploy)
Experience with Agentic AI (LangGraph MCP Servers Agent Frameworks)
Experience with Data Handling (Pandas / NumPy Apache Spark Ray)

Helpful Experience (Nice to Have)
Experience with LLMs Machine Learning & Deep Learning Libraries AI Application Frameworks Vector Databases
Experience with Automotive Data / Industry
Experience with Agile / Scrum

Primary Responsibilities
Analyze large and complex data sets
Design develop and coordinate the generation of Data Pipelines
Work collaboratively with team to plan and solve complex problems
Design for or optimize existing pipelines for performance and cost

Why Join MOTOR
Work on high-impact data products used across the automotive industry
Real ownership and influence over platform direction
Backed by Hearststable but with room to innovate
Collaborative team solving meaningful complex problems
Additional Details
Hybrid schedule: 3 days onsite in Troy MI
No visa sponsorship available at this time

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