CareerPlan

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Chicago, ILRemoteFull-time$130k–$173k2026-11-10 → 2026-11-11
HybridNo visa sponsorship

Core

Own the end-to-end data platform that ingests production data, orchestrates pipelines, and builds core dbt models serving as the source of truth for finance, product, and analysts.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC data platform engineer (analytics)

Builds

Production data pipelines, curated dbt models, and analysis-ready marts for finance and product teams

Domain

Fintech / Payments / POS / SaaS

Required skills

Expert SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake, dimensional modeling, pipeline orchestration (Airflow), data quality testing, financial data reconciliation

Preferred skills

CDC/streaming ingestion, data observability, CI/CD for dbt, semantic layers

Technologies

Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Python, SQL

Responsibilities

Build and operate reliable data ingestion pipelines from production databases and third-party APIs; Design and own core dbt models unifying data across multiple POS platforms; Define and enforce data quality tests and monitoring for pipeline health; Tune Snowflake workloads and costs; Partner with stakeholders to translate business questions into data products; Mentor teams on SQL and modeling practices

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC