Data Operations Engineer - Minneapolis, MN

Booster; United States; On-site; USD 99,000 - 172,700; Full time

Job summary

Alumni Ventures is seeking a Data Operations Engineer to manage the full lifecycle of partner data. This role involves guiding data architecture and collaborating with diverse teams to deliver data solutions. You'll have strong SQL skills and experience with tools like Snowflake and Airflow.

The position follows a hybrid model, requiring at least two days a week in the Minneapolis office. The salary range is $99,000.00 - $172,700.00, reflecting the commitment to an inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and operating data pipelines with defined latency, freshness, and accuracy SLAs.
• Proven success leading work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Hands-on experience with modern data tooling such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and schema registries.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and delivery of ingestion pipelines.
• Mentor engineers and analytics contributors.
• Build pipelines with strong observability and alerting.

Skills

Strong experience designing and operating data pipelines

Expert SQL skills

Hands-on experience with modern data tooling (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow)

Ability to work with large, complex datasets

Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Job Description

As a Data Operations Engineer at Datasite, you own the full lifecycle of partner data as it moves through our systems — ingestion, transformation, validation, and reconciliation — bringing the monitoring and SLA discipline that sophisticated partners expect. You balance partner trust, engineering velocity, and long‑term data platform health while enabling intelligent, contract‑driven data exchange across our partner ecosystem.

You bring hands‑on experience with modern data tooling (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, schema registries) paired with practical AI‑augmented workflows that compress manual investigation into minutes. You will help ensure new partnerships are delivered on a foundation of trustworthy data, with the rigor and creative problem‑solving that lets the broader engineering team stop firefighting and start building.

How We Work Together

Strategic Data Leadership

• Guide data architecture decisions that incorporate AI‑augmented capabilities into ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation workflows for partner integrations.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and partner teams to develop flexible data roadmaps aligned to Datasite strategy while adapting to fast‑evolving partner data needs.
• Drive pipeline improvements that scale across diverse partner data formats, reduce operational overhead, and improve reliability of SLA‑bound data products.
• Maintain adaptable data contracts and schema strategies, enabling rapid onboarding of new partners in uncertain, high‑velocity environments.

Cross‑Team Collaboration & Influence

• Identify and drive cross‑platform improvements (schema registries, validation tooling, data contracts, lineage tracking) that enhance partner and developer experiences.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and partner teams to deliver AI‑first, integration‑ready data solutions.
• Communicate complex data concepts clearly, translating pipeline design trade‑offs and SLA commitments for diverse stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance that ensures alignment, simplicity, and consistency across data flows and partner integrations.

Problem Solving & Overcoming Obstacles

• Evaluate trade‑offs across freshness, accuracy, latency, and cost, especially in partner‑driven and AI‑augmented data workflows.
• Simplify pipelines and drive down data debt while supporting rapid experimentation and onboarding of new partners.
• Own ambiguous data challenges — mismatched schemas, silent failures, partial loads, reconciliation gaps — and drive them to resolution.
• Apply strong diagnostics to identify root causes of data discrepancies and deliver resilient, auditable solutions.

Mentorship & Growth

• Mentor engineers and analytics contributors through coaching and feedback, including adoption of modern and AI‑augmented data practices.
• Support team growth by promoting continuous learning, experimentation, and adaptability in data engineering methods.
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, collaboration, and shared ownership of data quality.
• Help raise the bar in hiring, ensuring alignment with Datasite's technical and cultural expectations.

Ownership & Accountability

• Own end‑to‑end design and delivery of ingestion pipelines, transformation layers, reconciliation processes, and partner‑facing data products.
• Build pipelines with strong observability, alerting, and self‑healing characteristics — so issues are identified and, where possible, remediated before they become partner‑visible.
• Track progress, manage risk, and adapt plans while maintaining a bias for action and high‑quality execution.
• Ensure new partnerships are delivered with care, reliability, and ingenuity, balancing speed with long‑term data integrity.

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience designing and operating data pipelines with defined latency, freshness, and accuracy SLAs.
• Expert SQL skills and proven ability to work with large, complex datasets across diverse partner schemas.
• Hands‑on experience with modern data tooling such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and schema registries.
• Practical, in‑the‑workflow use of agentic tooling to accelerate schema mapping, anomaly detection, data profiling, and pipeline debugging.
• Track record of building monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and reconciliation processes for systems with external commitments.
• Ability to ramp quickly on new partner ecosystems, data formats, and domains.
• Proven success leading work in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross‑team influence.

Work Location & Flexibility

• This role follows a hybrid work model and is open to candidates based near our Minneapolis office. Employees are expected to work on‑site a minimum of two days per week.

$99,000.00 - $172,700.00

Our company is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce where all individuals are respected and valued. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are dedicated to building teams that reflect the diversity of our communities.