Principal Data Platform Engineer — Hybrid in San Diego

EDF power solutions; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health coverage

401k matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Mentorship program

Job summary

EDF power solutions seeks a Principal Engineer, Data Platform to lead the design and delivery of a modern cloud data platform, including pipelines, Snowflake, and analytics readiness. You will own end-to-end data flow from sources to consumption-ready data products and guide cross-functional teams.

This hybrid role based in San Diego, CA requires 8+ years in data engineering and strong AWS, Snowflake, Python, dbt expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, with a proven track record of delivering production-grade data platforms and leading technical teams.
• High proficiency with AWS cloud computing environments and associated data services.
• Deep experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake strongly preferred).
• Expert-level Python and dbt for transformations, data modeling, and documentation.
• Mastery of SQL, dimensional modeling, star schemas, and data warehouse design patterns.
• Advanced knowledge of CDC, SCD, and incremental loading patterns.
• Proficiency with Git version control and modern CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements cloud-native data integrations using APIs and AWS services to bring data into Snowflake from various sources.
• Designs, builds, and maintains data transformation models using dbt.
• Manages Snowflake platform infrastructure including environment setup, performance optimization, cost management, security configuration, and access controls.
• Leads cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders, product management, analytics, governance, and data engineering.
• Applies data quality frameworks, testing, monitoring, and alerting for data accuracy and pipeline reliability.
• Contributes to and implements the vision for Data Architecture and partners with Product Management.
• Performs data integration tasks and optimizes data models for visualization.
• Documents data models, lineage, and technical architecture to support governance initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

dbt

SQL

Data modeling

AWS

Data architecture

Git

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

CloudFormation

Git

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Job description

EDF power solutions seeks a Principal Engineer, Data Platform to lead the design and delivery of a modern cloud data platform, including pipelines, Snowflake, and analytics readiness. You will own end-to-end data flow from sources to consumption-ready data products and guide cross-functional teams.

This hybrid role based in San Diego, CA requires 8+ years in data engineering and strong AWS, Snowflake, Python, dbt expertise.