Lead Data Platform Engineer

Versant; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Shuttle to Englewood Cliffs

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Versant Media’s Data Platforms team leads our enterprise data strategy, building scalable, well-governed data systems and pipelines that power analytics, reporting, and content delivery across the organization.

The Principal Data Engineer will define schemas, data contracts, and governance standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Platform Development to ensure robust, contract-driven data services across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• Deep expertise in: Data modeling, ELT pipelines, Large-scale data processing systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with familiarity in distributed data systems.
• Understanding of data governance, contracts, and lineage; data quality and observability.
• Experience designing systems that support analytical workloads and operational data use cases.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, transformation frameworks, and data models.
• Define standards for data modeling, schema design and evolution, and data lifecycle management.
• Ensure alignment with data contracts, governance and lineage requirements, and observability.
• Partner with Platform Engineering to integrate data systems into platform services and APIs.
• Testing and validation of data pipelines.
• Performance and scalability.
• Reusability and modular design.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
• Evaluate and introduce modern data technologies and patterns where appropriate.

Skills

Data modeling

ELT pipelines

Large-scale processing

Python

SQL

Data governance

Data quality

Observability

Analytical workloads

Leadership

Tools

Databricks

AWS Bedrock

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Versant Media’s Data Platforms team leads our enterprise data strategy, building scalable, well-governed data systems and pipelines that power analytics, reporting, and content delivery across the organization.

The Principal Data Engineer will define schemas, data contracts, and governance standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Platform Development to ensure robust, contract-driven data services across the organization.