Lead Analytics Platform Engineer

The Voleon Group; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

The Voleon Group is seeking a Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics to own the design, evolution, and long‑term architecture of analytics infrastructure used by researchers. You will lead critical pipelines and foundational datasets while guiding standardization and reliable operation across research analytics systems.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists, Researchers, and Data Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, queryable datasets and high velocity insight generation in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Deep experience with distributed query engines and large‑scale compute systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of large‑scale or mission‑critical data infrastructure.
• Strong data modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility considerations.
• Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and applying robust data governance principles.

Responsibilities

• Own implementation and on‑going operation of recurring analytics pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs) including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements.
• Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform, including schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows.
• Drive cross‑team technical alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs.
• Build and maintain base analytics tables and metrics with strong schema discipline and reproducible computation.
• Define and implement reliability standards (SLOs, observability patterns, runbooks) adopted across analytics pipelines.
• Improve transparency and usability through documentation, discoverability, and clear data contracts.
• Optimize distributed compute and SQL query performance; design data layouts (partitioning, file sizing) for columnar storage.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and raise the bar for operational and modeling rigor

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed compute systems

Data modeling

Metadata management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Presto

Spark

Parquet/ORC

AWS

Job description

The Voleon Group is seeking a Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics to own the design, evolution, and long‑term architecture of analytics infrastructure used by researchers. You will lead critical pipelines and foundational datasets while guiding standardization and reliable operation across research analytics systems.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists, Researchers, and Data Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, queryable datasets and high velocity insight generation in a