Senior Data Engineer - AI/ML Data Platform (Hybrid)

Homes.com; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

On-site fitness center

Job summary

Homes.com, a CoStar Group company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer in Arlington, VA, to build out sitewide tracking architecture and feed data into KPI dashboards for site performance and product usage. You will deliver data engineering architecture and collaborate across departments to provide insights for growth.

The role involves data management, automated infrastructure, and analytics solutions, with a focus on scalable pipelines, data governance, and AI-enabled development practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in software development, delivering high-quality solutions
• Strong proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL
• Experience with cloud-based databases, including both relational and non-relational systems
• Experience with Power BI or similar BI tools
• Knowledge of AI technologies and hands-on experience leveraging AI tooling in development
• Ability to translate technical requirements into robust architecture, data models, and ETL strategies

Responsibilities

• Design and oversee dimensional modeling, database design, and cloud data platform structures (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Develop data platform framework to build secure data warehouses and data lakehouses applying principles of Medallion Architecture
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes using Databricks, Snowflake, and other AWS services
• Implement and optimize Spark jobs, data transformations, and data processing workflows in Databricks
• Building and deploying AI/ML models: Integrate Machine Learning into data pipelines, leverage Databricks ML and AWS ML to develop predictive models and drive business insights
• Define and Apply AI-assisted software development practices to improve engineering productivity and code quality
• Understand various data domains and be able to translate them through data transformations to suit various business needs
• Oversee automated data infrastructure: Collaborate with software engineering and product teams to streamline data tracking in our products
• Ability to integrate data from disparate sources via cross domain data stitch into existing data model
• Implement data governance, lineage tracking, testing, and monitoring frameworks to guarantee data integrity
• Hands-on data optimization and query performance
• Liaise with key company teams (DBA, DevOps, SecOps…) for data accessibility and analysis
• Mentor and manage engineers and analysts in the normal execution of their responsibilities.
• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters
• Leverage AWS DevOps and CI/CD best practices to automate the deployment, through terraform, and management of data pipelines and infrastructure.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Object-Oriented Programming

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

AWS

Kubernetes

DynamoDB

S3

Power BI

Job description

Homes.com, a CoStar Group company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer in Arlington, VA, to build out sitewide tracking architecture and feed data into KPI dashboards for site performance and product usage. You will deliver data engineering architecture and collaborate across departments to provide insights for growth.

The role involves data management, automated infrastructure, and analytics solutions, with a focus on scalable pipelines, data governance, and AI-enabled development practices.