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

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) match

Paid time off + holidays

Sick time + personal days

Job summary

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

Location: Hillsboro, OR with hybrid schedule; target compensation shown with annual bonus.

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.
• 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

Cloud-native

SQL mastery

Data modeling

Data warehousing

ETL pipelines

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

Real-time streaming

Kafka

Kinesis

Flink

Spark

AI/ML infra

SageMaker

Bedrock

Python

Infrastructure as code

Job description

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

Location: Hillsboro, OR with hybrid schedule; target compensation shown with annual bonus.