Principal Data Engineer: Data Strategy & Analytics Lead

StartupNWA; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 129,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

StartupNWA in Bentonville, AR seeks a Principal Data Engineer to translate business problems into data-driven solutions and lead data architecture at scale.

You will own data strategy, build ETL pipelines with Hadoop/Spark/Hive/BigQuery on cloud platforms, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and analytics teams to drive outcomes.

The role requires advanced degree or equivalent and hands-on experience with cloud platforms, BI tools, and ML modeling to deliver actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field with 3+ years software eng exp.
• Or Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant exp.
• Hands-on in Python, SQL, PySpark, HTML, Scala.
• Experience building ETL pipelines with Hadoop/Spark/Hive/BigQuery on cloud.
• Data warehousing with Redshift/Teradata/S3/BigQuery for analytics.
• SQL/Spark SQL/NoSQL data manipulation and retrieval.
• Automation and scalable pipeline architecture; KPI-focused.
• Experience with JIRA, GitHub, PM tools; dashboards with Power BI/Tableau.
• ML models (forecasting/regression) using Python libs; support EDA.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams; mentoring juniors.

Responsibilities

• Translate business problems into data-related or mathematical solutions.
• Identify methods/tools to provide solutions and share use cases.
• Offer expert guidance to others in applying information and best practices.
• Develop business cases with ROI or cost-savings projections.
• Translate requirements into projects, tasks, and aligned strategy.
• Connect business needs with tangible data solutions and results.
• Identify insightful business data and monitor progress with stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers on storytelling, data narratives, and methods.
• Profile, analyze, and ensure data quality; enforce data governance.
• Design, implement, and validate exploratory data analyses (EDA).

Skills

Python

SQL

PySpark

HTML

Scala

ETL pipelines

Data visualization

ML models

JIRA

GitHub

Power BI

Tableau

Education

Master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

3+ years software engineering or related exp

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Hadoop

Apache Spark

Hive

BigQuery

AWS

GCP

Azure

Amazon Redshift

Teradata

S3

NoSQL

Parquet/JSON/CSV

EC2

Job description

StartupNWA in Bentonville, AR seeks a Principal Data Engineer to translate business problems into data-driven solutions and lead data architecture at scale.

You will own data strategy, build ETL pipelines with Hadoop/Spark/Hive/BigQuery on cloud platforms, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and analytics teams to drive outcomes.

The role requires advanced degree or equivalent and hands-on experience with cloud platforms, BI tools, and ML modeling to deliver actionable insights.