Principal Data Engineer — Platform Architect & Leader

Constant Contact; United States; Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits and paid leave

Hybrid work model

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Constant Contact is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to transform how we think about customer insights and data platforms. You will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and data teams, shaping scalable architectures and mentoring engineers across the US and India.

The role demands cloud expertise (AWS/GCP), strong ETL skills, and experience with lakehouse architectures, dbt standards, and production-grade data pipelines. A hybrid work setup is supported.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of data experience across SQL, scripting, and data platforms.
• Led platform architecture for a multi-team data organization.
• Experience building end-to-end data pipelines for reporting.
• Experience with large-scale structured and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Architect large-scale data intelligence solutions using Snowflake and BigQuery.
• Design and evolve a lakehouse on AWS (S3, Iceberg/Delta formats).
• Develop data ingestion pipelines with EMR, Snowpipe, DMS, etc.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and hybrid architectures.
• Build ETL pipelines using Python, Scala, SnowSQL, etc.
• Own orchestration with Dagster: assets, schedules, lineage, backfills.
• Set dbt standards for enterprise data models and CI validation.
• Hands-on building production-grade data pipelines with Java, Spark, Python.
• Tune Trino for performance, configuration, and cost on Kubernetes.
• Write architecture decision records and mentor distributed teams.

Skills

SQL development

Shell scripting

Python

Snowflake

AWS

software engineering

database development

lead platform architecture

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science/IT

Tools

Trino/Presto

Iceberg/Delta/Hudi

Dagster/Airflow

dbt

Spark

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform/CDK

Job description

Constant Contact is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to transform how we think about customer insights and data platforms. You will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and data teams, shaping scalable architectures and mentoring engineers across the US and India.

The role demands cloud expertise (AWS/GCP), strong ETL skills, and experience with lakehouse architectures, dbt standards, and production-grade data pipelines. A hybrid work setup is supported.