Senior Data Engineer

Reach Financial

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life Insurance

401k Match

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Disability Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Spending Accounts

Insurance Discounts

Job summary

Reach Financial seeks a Senior Data Engineer to drive data platform modernization. You will build pipelines, models, and artifacts, and enforce best practices across the data squad.

You'll collaborate with Data, Software, and Platform Engineers to scale data designs, ensure quality, and optimize Snowflake and dbt implementations at scale.

Qualifications

6+ years of hands-on data engineering experience.
Proficient with dbt and Snowflake deployments.
Strong SQL and NoSQL expertise.
Experience with Airflow, Dagster, or similar orchestration tools.
CI/CD for data pipelines and Git version control.
Experience optimizing Snowflake costs and performance.
Experience with ETL from SaaS like Salesforce via Fivetran.
Experience with Python/Java/Scala.

Responsibilities

Develop and manage data pipelines, data models, and data artifacts.
Champion data quality, testing, and documentation.
Collaborate with data, software, and platform engineers.
Partner with data scientists and analysts to translate requirements.
Evaluate new data tools and solutions to optimize the ecosystem.
Work with CI/CD and IaC tools like GitHub Actions and Terraform.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and ensure data reliability and availability.
Document data pipelines and engineering processes.

Skills

6+ years data engineering

dbt proficiency

SQL & NoSQL mastery

Airflow/Dagster orchestration

CI/CD for data pipelines

Snowflake optimization

Python/Java/Scala

cross-functional collaboration

Education

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Fivetran

Amazon RDS

PostgreSQL

Airflow

Dagster

dbt Cloud

Job description

About the role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Reach, you’ll work alongside our existing Data Engineering team on our data platform modernization effort. You’ll be a key contributor to our broader data practice, building and maintaining pipelines, data models, and transformations as we modernize Reach’s data stack. You’ll help establish scalable, reliable, and consistent data engineering practices across the organization, ushering in a new era of cohesive data design and management within the broader Engineering organization.

What you’ll do

Develop and manage data pipelines, data models, schemas, and data artifacts as a core contributor to our data squad.
Champion data engineering best practices, including data quality, version control, testing, and documentation.
Collaborate with Data, Software, and Platform Engineers to evolve and improve existing engineering practices, tools, and infrastructure.
Partner with data scientists, analysts, stakeholders, and cross-functional data teams across the organization to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Stay up to date on emerging data engineering tools and technologies, and help evaluate new solutions to optimize our data ecosystem.
Collaborate with Platform Engineers to ensure seamless integration and deployment of data pipelines using shared CI/CD tools and Infrastructure as Code solutions, such as GitHub Actions and Terraform.
Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure data quality, reliability, and availability.
Develop and maintain documentation for data pipelines, data models, and engineering processes.

What you should have

6+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, working with dbt (Core or Cloud), Snowflake, Fivetran, Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, etc
Strong proficiency in dbt development best practices and coding conventions, with hands-on experience designing and implementing Medallion data architecture (Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers) in a production environment.
Extensive knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data stores
Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or similar platforms
Experience implementing automated data quality checks, dbt testing, and data validation frameworks
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, and automated deployment processes for data engineering workflows
Demonstrated experience optimizing Snowflake performance, dbt models, SQL queries, and data warehouse costs
Production experience working with and managing a Snowflake deployment
Experience extracting information from SaaS systems like Salesforce using ETL tools like FiveTran
Production experience using dbt Cloud or other source-driven transformation management tools
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Database Change Management tooling
Experience with operational database management, including backup, recovery, tuning, data modeling, scaling
Demonstrated experience with Python, Java, Scala, or similar languages
Must be self-motivated, focused, and highly committed to delivering value
Must be a collaborative team player with strong communication skills, a willingness to share knowledge, and the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Nice to haves

Experience preparing data for analysis in Tableau or other BI tools
Experience with Tableau CRM Analytics Data Pipelines
Experience with Sigma Computing
Experience with Fivetran Activations
Experience working in the Financial Services industry and familiarity with working in a SOC2 and PCI-DSS environment.

What is it like working at Reach Financial?

Our culture is built around advancing our teams, and we are dedicated to the success and growth of every team member. We believe in retaining a high-performing workforce and we prioritize diversity, intellectual curiosity, and continued learning. Our generous benefits packages reflect that.

We’ve been hard at work perfecting our product for years, and now we’re growing faster than ever before. Our strong foundation and company culture is readily equipped for this growth, and we believe that with the right people, our products will continue to help customers make real changes in their financial lives.

What benefits will you receive?