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Senior Data Engineer

Richmond, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and optimize scalable data platforms and real-time data solutions for enterprise analytics.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Data Engineer

Builds

Scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, high-volume data processing solutions, and event-driven streaming applications.

Domain

Cloud data engineering and distributed computing

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, SQL, distributed data processing, cloud architecture, data modeling, streaming technologies, performance optimization

Preferred skills

Technical leadership, code quality standards, deployment strategies, monitoring

Technologies

AWS, Azure, GCP, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, EMR, Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift

Responsibilities

Lead design and development of scalable data pipelines; Design and implement data solutions on major cloud platforms; Build high-volume data processing solutions; Develop and optimize real-time streaming applications; Design data models for enterprise data warehouses; Optimize data pipelines for performance and cost; Lead technical discussions and provide guidance to engineers; Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions; Establish engineering best practices for code quality and data quality.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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