Senior Investment Data Platform Lead - Hybrid Boston

Castleton Tower; Boston; Hybrid; PHP 11,342,000 - 15,123,000; Full time

Job summary

Castleton Tower is seeking a senior, hands-on data engineering lead to build a modern investment data platform for a prominent asset allocator. The firm has outgrown isolated apps and spreadsheets and aims to unify data across investment, operations, and reporting functions.

This is a builder's role. The right candidate has deep technical expertise, writes and reviews production code, and maintains high quality. You will lead a small, growing team and partner with the head of the function.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or software engineering focused on data platforms.
• 3+ years leading technical work as a tech lead, principal, staff engineer, or engineering manager who still builds.
• Expert SQL and Python, with deep data modeling and architectural judgment.
• Production experience with modern warehouse/lakehouse platforms (Snowflake/Databricks), dbt, and orchestration tools (Dagster/Airflow).
• Strong software engineering practices: version control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD for data.
• Proven track record of shipping and operating systems you built.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the data platform including core domains and data models.
• Hands-on delivery of production-grade pipelines (Python/SQL/dbt).
• Raise engineering standards with reviews, testing, and documentation.

Skills

SQL & Python

Data modeling

Technical leadership

Snowflake/Databricks

Dagster/Airflow

CI/CD

Tools

dbt

Dagster

Airflow

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

Job description

Castleton Tower is seeking a senior, hands-on data engineering lead to build a modern investment data platform for a prominent asset allocator. The firm has outgrown isolated apps and spreadsheets and aims to unify data across investment, operations, and reporting functions.

This is a builder's role. The right candidate has deep technical expertise, writes and reviews production code, and maintains high quality. You will lead a small, growing team and partner with the head of the function.