Data Platform Engineer

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Atlanta, GA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 6 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Data Engineer (Platform Focus)

Overview

This role sits at the intersection of data infrastructure and business enablement. Youll help ensure that data across the organization is reliable accessible and structured in a way that supports decision-making across multiple functions.

Rather than building from scratch youll step into an existing environment and focus on improving consistency scalability and overall quality. The role is hands-on with opportunities to contribute to broader technical direction over time.

What Youll Work On

  • Build and maintain data pipelines that integrate information from a variety of internal systems into a centralized warehouse
  • Improve the stability performance and visibility of data workflows
  • Partner with engineering teams to ensure clean and dependable data inputs
  • Design and refine data models that support reporting and analytics use cases
  • Collaborate with analytics stakeholders to make datasets easier to use and extend
  • Implement best practices around data quality validation and monitoring
  • Support secure handling of data including access controls and governance standards
  • Contribute to documentation that helps teams understand and work with shared data assets
  • Evaluate and improve tools and processes used across the data stack

What Helps You Succeed

  • Strong experience writing efficient and scalable SQL
  • Background working with modern data transformation frameworks (e.g. dbt or similar)
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools and ELT pipelines
  • Experience working with cloud-based data warehouses
  • Comfort using scripting languages (Python or similar) for automation and tooling
  • Ability to balance speed with long-term maintainability
  • Clear communication skills especially when working across technical and non-technical teams

Nice to Have (But Not Required)

  • Exposure to designing or evolving data platform architecture
  • Experience contributing to technical direction or longer-term planning
  • Familiarity with documenting technical decisions or system design
  • Experience identifying and mitigating scaling or reliability risks
  • Experience working across multiple teams to influence shared standards

Additional Experience Thats Helpful

  • Exposure to cloud infrastructure concepts
  • Familiarity with data observability or testing frameworks
  • Understanding of data privacy and compliance considerations
  • Experience evaluating new tools or vendors
  • Interest in improving developer productivity through automation or AI tools

Required Experience:

IC

Senior Data Engineer (Platform Focus)OverviewThis role sits at the intersection of data infrastructure and business enablement. Youll help ensure that data across the organization is reliable accessible and structured in a way that supports decision-making across multiple functions.Rather than build...
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aquesst is an Atlanta based firm that specializes in identifying Information Technology talent for small, medium and fortune 500 companies on a contract, contract to hire, direct hire and project basis.

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