Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Data Quality

VoltaGrid LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VoltaGrid LLC seeks a Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, models, and governance for its cloud data platform. You will ensure data reliability, security, and cost-efficiency to support analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with Operations, Finance, Data Science, and Software Engineering to support production data systems and improve platform performance and data quality for time-series telemetry from the fleet.

Qualifications

• Four+ years of data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Experience building production data pipelines at scale.
• Experience with large datasets, time-series or IoT data preferred.
• Experience with pipeline orchestration and scheduling tools.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD for data deployments.
• Knowledge of data warehousing, ELT/ETL patterns, and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain batch, streaming, and event-driven data pipelines integrating SaaS applications, APIs, and industrial telemetry sources.
• Develop and optimize data models and transformations across raw, integration, and presentation layers.
• Establish and monitor data freshness service-level agreements and implement monitoring and alerting for pipeline health.
• Implement automated data quality checks and controls to prevent inaccurate or incomplete data from reaching downstream systems, particularly customer-facing and financial applications.
• Optimize performance and control compute costs for large time-series datasets through warehouse sizing, clustering, query tuning, budgets, and resource monitoring.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD workflows, including version-controlled schema changes and promotion across development, testing, and production environments.
• Implement and maintain data governance and security controls, including RBAC, tagging, masking, and row-level security.
• Develop, secure, and monitor data products shared with customers and business partners.
• Document data assets, establish ownership, and develop semantic models supporting self-service analytics and AI tools.
• Identify and retire obsolete data assets and establish naming conventions and design standards.
• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to define requirements and deliver new data products.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and production support for data systems.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Snowflake

CI/CD

Time-series data

ETL/ELT

Git

Monitoring/Observability

Tools

Snowflake

Snowpipe

Snowpark

Grafana

CI/CD tools

Job description

VoltaGrid LLC seeks a Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, models, and governance for its cloud data platform. You will ensure data reliability, security, and cost-efficiency to support analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with Operations, Finance, Data Science, and Software Engineering to support production data systems and improve platform performance and data quality for time-series telemetry from the fleet.