Principal Data & Analytics Engineer

Curaleaf; Wakefield (MA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Benefits

PTO & parental leave

401(k)

Life/ Disability insurance

Community involvement

Referral bonuses

Product discounts

Job summary

Curaleaf is seeking a Principal Data & Analytics Engineer to lead our modern data and analytics ecosystem from ingestion to semantic delivery. This hands-on role combines architecture, engineering standards, and platform capability development across data teams to enable trusted and scalable data products.

You will partner with Data & Analytics leadership and business product owners to deliver reusable data assets, establish governance, and drive engineering excellence with a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Platforms, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience operating as a senior technical lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, architect, or equivalent individual contributor with influence across teams
• Strong hands-on expertise with Snowflake, including data architecture, performance, security, workload management, access patterns, and cost optimization
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong experience with Python for data engineering, automation, platform tooling, or analytical workflows
• Significant experience with dbt or a comparable SQL-first transformation framework, including project architecture, testing, documentation, deployment, and reusable modeling patterns
• Experience designing modern analytical data models, including staging layers, conformed dimensions, facts, curated marts, semantic models, and reusable data products
• Strong knowledge of ingestion, ELT, orchestration, data contracts, schema evolution, data quality, lineage, and production-support practices
• Experience with Git, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, environment management, and software-engineering practices applied to data systems
• Experience defining architecture and technical standards while remaining sufficiently hands-on to build prototypes, solve complex problems, and guide implementation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to business and executive audiences
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical alignment without relying on formal people-management authority
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end data architecture across ingestion to data products.
• Translate business needs into scalable architectural roadmaps and platform capabilities.
• Architect secure, cost-efficient Snowflake environments supporting data products and analytics.
• Lead environment management, data access, workload isolation, and platform resilience.
• Collaborate with data owners, data stewards, and analytics teams to design reusable data products.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant incidents and implement durable improvements.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Technical leadership

Git & CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

dbt

Looker

Omni

Hex

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

At Curaleaf, we’re redefining the cannabis industry with a strong commitment to quality, expertise, and innovation. As a leading global cannabis provider, our brands—including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots—offer premium products and services in both medical and adult-use markets.

Join us at Curaleaf to be part of a high-growth, purpose-driven company that champions corporate social responsibility through our Rooted in Good initiative, supporting community outreach and positive change. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, drive innovation, and help shape the future of cannabis.

Title: Principal Data & Analytics Engineer

Location: Stamford, CT or Wakefield, MA (On-site)

Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt

About the Role:

As the Principal Data & Analytics Engineer, you will serve as the senior technical leader for Curaleaf’s modern data and analytics ecosystem. You will define and evolve the architecture, engineering standards and shared platform capabilities that enable trusted, scalable and reusable data products across the organization.This is a hands‑on individual‑contributor and leadership role. You will work across Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Data Governance, and business-facing product teams. You will help connect Curaleaf’s data lifecycle from source ingestion through transformation, semantic delivery, advanced analytics and business consumption.You will partner closely with the Director of Data & Analytics, Senior Data Engineer, Senior Analytics Engineer and business product owners. Success will come not only from the solutions you build, but also from the technical clarity, reusable capabilities and engineering leverage you create for the entire team.This Principal engineering role will lead through technical direction, architecture, mentoring and cross-team influence rather than direct people management. Impact will be measured across systems and teams, not solely through individual code output.

What You’ll Do:

• Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture across source ingestion, Snowflake, dbt, Omni, Hex, and related data services


• Translate business strategy and product needs into scalable technical roadmaps, architectural patterns, and platform capabilities


• Establish clear technology boundaries and guide where ingestion, transformation, semantic, reporting, and advanced analytical logic should reside


• Architect secure, scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective Snowflake environments supporting data products, BI, self‑service analytics, and data science


• Partner with the Senior Data Engineer on workload management, access patterns, observability, performance, resource utilization, and production support


• Lead technical strategies for environment management, data access, workload isolation, platform resilience, and ongoing optimization


• Define standards for SQL, Python, dbt, ingestion pipelines, data modeling, testing, documentation, deployment, and version control


• Advance Git‑based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and engineering quality across the data lifecycle


• Partner with business product owners, data stewards, Analytics Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to design trusted and reusable data products


• Lead root‑cause reviews for significant incidents and convert recurring issues into durable platform or engineering improvements


• Partner with data owners and stewards to implement quality expectations, ownership, lineage, classification, access, and appropriate‑use requirements


• Communicate architecture, risk, tradeoffs, and investment needs clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership

What You’ll Bring:

• 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Platforms, or a closely related discipline


• Demonstrated experience operating as a senior technical lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, architect, or equivalent individual contributor with influence across teams


• Strong hands‑on expertise with Snowflake, including data architecture, performance, security, workload management, access patterns, and cost optimization


• Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong experience with Python for data engineering, automation, platform tooling, or analytical workflows


• Significant experience with dbt or a comparable SQL‑first transformation framework, including project architecture, testing, documentation, deployment, and reusable modeling patterns


• Experience designing modern analytical data models, including staging layers, conformed dimensions, facts, curated marts, semantic models, and reusable data products


• Strong knowledge of ingestion, ELT, orchestration, data contracts, schema evolution, data quality, lineage, and production‑support practices


• Experience with Git, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, environment management, and software‑engineering practices applied to data systems


• Experience defining architecture and technical standards while remaining sufficiently hands‑on to build prototypes, solve complex problems, and guide implementation


• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to business and executive audiences


• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical alignment without relying on formal people‑management authority


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Even Better If:

• Experience with dltHub or another modern ingestion framework.


• Experience with Omni, Looker, or another governed semantic and business‑intelligence platform.

Massachusetts Hiring Range

$145,000 — $160,000 USD

What We Offer:

• Career Growth Opportunities


• Competitive Pay and Benefits


• Generous PTO and Parental Leave


• 401(K) Retirement Plan


• Life/ Disability Insurance


• Community Involvement


• Referral Bonuses and Product Discounts

Benefits vary by state, role type, and eligibility.

Follow us on Social Media:

Instagram: @curaleaf.usa

Twitter: @Curaleaf_Inc

LinkedIn: Curaleaf LinkedIn

Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) (“Curaleaf”) is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing, and celebrating the power of the plant. As a high‑growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company, and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, Grassroots, Find, and Anthem provide industry‑leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult‑use markets. Curaleaf International is powered by a strong presence in all stages of the supply chain. Its unique distribution network throughout Europe, Canada and Australasia brings together pioneering science and research with cutting‑edge cultivation, extraction and production.

Our Vision:

To be the world’s leading cannabis company by consistently delivering superior products and services and driving the global acceptance of cannabis.

Our Values:

• Lead and Inspire.


• Commit to Win.


• ONE Curaleaf.


• Driven to Deliver Excellence.

Curaleaf is an equal opportunity employer. Curaleaf recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Individuals adversely impacted by the war on drugs are encouraged to apply.

Current Curaleaf employees should apply for open positions through our Internal Job Board, which can be accessed via the link on The Leaf.

***Please note that U.S. immigration rules and regulations are governed by federal law; not state law. Although Curaleaf operates in states that have legalized and decriminalized marijuana, it is still considered a controlled substance under federal regulations and thus illegal under federal law. For this reason, unless and until federal law changes, Curaleaf is prohibited from offering sponsorship for any non‑immigrant or immigrant visas.***

***Please also note that while candidates who are Lawful Permanent Residents (such as those with Green Cards) are eligible for employment with, and are hired by Curaleaf, working for a company engaged in a business that grows and sells a product that is illegal under federal law might compromise the candidate’s immigration status. Before a Lawful Permanent Resident accepts an offer of employment, Curaleaf recommends that the candidate seek the advice of an immigration lawyer.***