Senior Data Engineer | Education | RVPR

This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our Santurce PR office (Tuesday through Thursday) and work fully remotely on Mondays and Fridays each week.

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Red Ventures Education is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build maintain and strengthen the data platform that powers analytics reporting and decision-making across our education platforms.

In this role youll own and improve production data pipelines develop analytics-ready data models and partner closely with analytics product platform and security teams to deliver reliable scalable and well-governed data solutions. Youll work in a modern lakehouse environment built on Databricks AWS Python SQL and Terraform with a focus on performance data quality governance and long-term maintainability.

This is a hands-on full-time role based in our Puerto Rico office for a senior engineer who is comfortable taking ownership of critical pipelines improving platform standards and helping teams turn trusted data into measurable business impact.

What Youll Do:

• Build maintain and optimize batch ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks using Python and SQL.
• Support day-to-day production pipeline operations including monitoring troubleshooting failures managing backfills and performance tuning.
• Develop and maintain analytics-ready data models that support reporting dashboards and business insights.
• Partner with analytics BI product and business stakeholders to align data definitions and deliver scalable data solutions.
• Integrate third-party data sources and APIs into the platform ensuring clean ingestion transformation validation and documentation.
• Implement and maintain data quality checks validation logic observability practices and operational documentation.
• Support BI and reporting tools such as Tableau Looker or similar platforms by ensuring underlying data tables are performant trusted and well-modeled.
• Help optimize Databricks workloads for reliability scalability performance and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to infrastructure-related work for data pipelines including Terraform-managed resources and environment configuration.
• Work with platform and security teams on Databricks governance identity and access management Unity Catalog registration ownership and permissions.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards CI/CD practices and collaborative development workflows.
• Support data migration and platform improvement efforts that move datasets and pipelines into production-grade environments

What Were Looking For:

• Required:
• 5 years of professional data engineering experience designing building and operating production data solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks Spark and cloud-based data platforms preferably AWS.
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python or Scala for building reliable performant data pipelines.
• Experience building and maintaining batch ETL/ELT pipelines in production environments.
• Strong understanding of data modeling for analytics including fact/dimension-style schemas and semantic-layer support.
• Experience debugging monitoring backfilling and tuning production data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code particularly Terraform as it applies to data platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD Git GitHub pull requests code reviews and collaborative engineering workflows.
• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog including table registration ownership grants and permission management.
• Understanding of data governance identity and access management role-based access control and service principals.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset and experience working across analytics product platform and business teams.
• Preferred:
• Experience supporting BI and analytics platforms such as Tableau Looker or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Delta Lake and governed lakehouse environments.
• Exposure to dbt or other SQL-based transformation frameworks.
• Experience integrating third-party data sources and external APIs into data platforms.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3 EC2 Lambda IAM or related cloud infrastructure.
• Background working with consumer-facing content-driven education media or digital platform data.
• Experience supporting privacy-safe data sharing patterns secure data exchange or clean-room environments.

Compensation:

Actual compensation varies based on location experience and qualifications.

Additionally the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical dental and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. Thats why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies spanning several U.S. businessesa joint venture in the health services industryand strategic investments in Europe. Their businesses include The Points Guy Lonely Planet Bankrate the Allconnect Platform RV Home Client Growth RV Growth & Transformation Sage Home Loans Corporation and more. Across the portfolio Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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