Senior Data Engineer

Intellum, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in corporate education technology, Intellum, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to enhance its data platform. The role involves designing data pipelines and ensuring the accuracy and quality of data across the organization. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in data engineering and proficiency in tools like PostgreSQL, dbt, and Python. Join a remote-first team that values creativity and collaboration while benefiting from a rich set of employee perks including medical, dental, and unlimited PTO.

Benefits

Medical - 100% of employee premiums for selected individual plans

Dental - 100% of employee premiums covered

Vision - 100% of employee premiums covered

401(k) plus matching (US Based Only)

Unlimited PTO

Calm subscription

Annual Company Retreat

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with modern data stack tools like dbt, Airbyte, and Kestra.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using tools like Airbyte and Datastream.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather data requirements.
• Ensure data quality through validation, anomaly detection, and robust error handling.

Skills

SQL

Data Engineering

Python

Data Quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS

dbt

Airbyte

Kestra

Terraform

Google BigQuery

Job description

Intellum is the leader in corporate education technology and powers the largest, most successful customer, partner, and employee learning programs in the world. Large brands and fast-moving companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Walmart, Xero, Atlassian, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Stripe, and TikTok rely on Intellum to engage and educate the audiences they touch.

We have always been a “remote first” company and are proud to have team members located all over the world. We value Curiosity, Creativity, Perseverance, and Kindness and strive to demonstrate these core values every day. Our culture is very important to us. We invest in our people in fun and exciting ways, including personal development budgets and an annual all-company retreat that is focused less on work and more on human connections. We are in growth mode, and our “smart growth” approach ensures that we will continue to scale our company effectively.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Intellum, you’ll play a key role in scaling and refining our data platform. Your mission is to ensure that data across the organization is accurate, accessible, and actionable. You’ll design and maintain robust pipelines, drive monitoring and observability strategies, and help shape our data governance and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines (currently using Airbyte, Datastream and Kestra).
• Monitor and support existing pipelines to ensure high reliability and performance.
• Drive best practices in orchestration using Kestra, including modularity, retries, and monitoring.
• Enforce data quality through validation, anomaly detection, and robust error handling.
• Document pipeline architecture, dependencies, and processes for easy knowledge sharing.
• Support and help evolve our data governance framework to ensure integrity, compliance, and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, ML, Business) to gather requirements and deliver data solutions.
• Integrate third-party systems (e.g., Salesforce, Stripe, etc) into our data ecosystem for unified insights.
• Experiment with and adopt AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor) to code, automate tasks, improve code quality, and boost the team’s and your own productivity.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or related fields.
• Strong SQL and relational database knowledge (PostgreSQL on AWS RDS / CloudSQL).
• Hands-on experience with dbt, Airbyte, Datastream, or similar modern data stack tools.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Kestra.
• Proficient with Python programming.
• Experience with Terraform / Terragrunt for infrastructure as code.
• Proficient with data warehouse design and development, preferably in Google BigQuery.
• Experience integrating and syncing third-party platforms with internal systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or related field (preferred).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate business insights and implications to non-technical parties.
• Ability to work with a diverse team in a remote-based culture.

BENEFITS

• Medical - 100% of employee premiums for selected individual plans
• Dental - 100% of employee premiums covered
• Vision - 100% of employee premiums covered
• 401(k) plus matching (US Based Only)
• Unlimited PTO
• Calm subscription
• Annual Company Retreat

Intellum is an equal-opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that celebrates diversity in people, perspectives, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We encourage you to apply for an open position and if you have questions about whether or not your job experience and skill set meet the requirements for a specific role, reach out to us directly at [e-mail].

If you are an individual applying from CA, NY, CO, CT, MD, NV, or RI, please reach out to [e-mail] to inquire about specific pay ranges.

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