Principal Data Engineer: Cloud Platform & Data Vault

Ally-Financial; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off & holidays

401K with match

Tuition reimbursement

Employee stock purchase plan

Health insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Ally Financial is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design and implement scalable data platforms and pipelines in an Enterprise Data & AI environment. You will collaborate across teams to deliver trusted data foundations supporting analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes cloud-native data engineering and governance. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data engineering, strong Snowflake and AWS experience, and a proven ability to mentor engineers and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or analytics platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, automation, and modern software engineering practices.
• Deep expertise with Snowflake, modern data warehousing, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including S3, Lambda.
• Knowledge of Data Vault, dimensional modeling, and enterprise data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines, data products, and enterprise data solutions.
• Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS, Snowflake, and modern data engineering technologies.
• Lead Data Vault and enterprise data modeling efforts to create trusted data assets.
• Build and optimize data ingestion, transformation, integration, and quality frameworks.
• Partner with business and technology teams to define data requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Establish data quality, monitoring, metadata, lineage, and governance standards.
• Promote engineering excellence through modern software development, DevOps, and Agile practices.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and influence architecture decisions.

Skills

Python

AWS

Snowflake

dbt

Data Vault

ETL

Airflow

APIs

Data Modeling

Security & Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Qlik Replicate

DataStage

Job description

Ally Financial is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design and implement scalable data platforms and pipelines in an Enterprise Data & AI environment. You will collaborate across teams to deliver trusted data foundations supporting analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes cloud-native data engineering and governance. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data engineering, strong Snowflake and AWS experience, and a proven ability to mentor engineers and