Senior Data Engineer - AI-Native Real-Time Data Platforms

First Tech Federal Credit Union; Chelmsford (MA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off (PT, sick, personal)

Paid holidays

Employee pricing

Job summary

First Tech Federal Credit Union is seeking a Sr Data Engineer - Data and AI to extend core data engineering by building cloud-native, reusable data products and AI-ready data capabilities. The role focuses on real-time processing, automation, observability, metadata, and governed data consumption to support analytics, data science, and AI-enabled solutions.

Location options include Hillsboro OR, Marlborough or Chelmsford MA, and San Jose CA, with a hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering with cloud-native architectures.
• 4+ years of SQL experience.
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines.
• Strong AWS/Databricks/Snowflake expertise.
• Proven experience with real-time streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark).
• Hands-on AI/ML infrastructure experience (SageMaker, Bedrock).
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Engineer AI-native infrastructure supporting real-time data processing.
• Build semantic layers and knowledge graphs enabling intelligent query routing and context-aware data access.
• Develop infrastructure for agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration.
• Implement GenAI-powered data quality, entity resolution, and metadata management Data-as-a-Product Delivery.
• Own end-to-end accountability for data products from ingestion to consumption.
• Deliver data products with clear SLAs, quality metrics, and customer satisfaction measures.
• Build self-service platforms with embedded governance, lineage, and discovery.
• Establish data contracts and APIs for reliable, versioned data consumption.
• Build high-quality pipelines supporting analysts, data scientists, and AI agents.
• Implement CDC and event-driven architectures for real-time data availability.
• Deploy infrastructure-as-code using CDK/Terraform

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

Kinesis

Flink

Spark

Python

Infrastructure as code

SageMaker

Bedrock

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Job description

First Tech Federal Credit Union is seeking a Sr Data Engineer - Data and AI to extend core data engineering by building cloud-native, reusable data products and AI-ready data capabilities. The role focuses on real-time processing, automation, observability, metadata, and governed data consumption to support analytics, data science, and AI-enabled solutions.

Location options include Hillsboro OR, Marlborough or Chelmsford MA, and San Jose CA, with a hybrid schedule.