Senior Data Engineer - AI-Driven Platform Lead (Remote)

Virgin Voyages; Florida; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Virgin Voyages is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to steer the technical direction of our data platform, owning architecture, pipelines, reliability, and data quality. You will enable AI-assisted development and oversee end-to-end AI-driven pipelines with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

This senior IC role operates with high autonomy across Data Engineering, MLOps, and DataOps, collaborating with ML teams and stakeholders to deliver scalable foundations for analytics and AI.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or related data platform roles.
• Experience designing and evolving modern data platforms and architecture.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the data engineering platform architecture and standards.
• Design scalable, reliable data pipelines and platform capabilities.
• Lead modernization toward scalable, managed solutions.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
• Build end-to-end AI-driven development pipelines.
• Define engineering standards and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and data quality.
• Collaborate with ML and analytics teams.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data architecture

CI/CD

Observability

AI tooling

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Kubernetes

Cloud Run

Bitbucket Pipelines

Job description

Virgin Voyages is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to steer the technical direction of our data platform, owning architecture, pipelines, reliability, and data quality. You will enable AI-assisted development and oversee end-to-end AI-driven pipelines with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

This senior IC role operates with high autonomy across Data Engineering, MLOps, and DataOps, collaborating with ML teams and stakeholders to deliver scalable foundations for analytics and AI.