Senior Data Engineer: Architecting Scalable Data Pipelines

NFI Industries; Camden (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NFI Industries is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and manage data architectures and pipelines for enterprise data used across multiple business units and external customers.

You will lead end-to-end analytics projects, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions and high-performance data repositories. This role emphasizes delivering timely insights and robust data governance.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree strongly preferred, will consider comparable work experience.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience is preferred.
• Understands and makes well-reasoned decisions within their area of expertise.
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends and seeks external expertise to accelerate learning.
• Clarifies success metrics and ties efforts toward delivering business value.
• Emerging understanding of broader organizational context and goals.

Responsibilities

• Develops strategies for data acquisition, archival, and recovery.
• Translates business needs into long-term data and architecture solutions.
• Leads enterprise data architectures and end-to-end analytics projects.
• Designs and communicates data solutions to business and technical stakeholders.
• Partners with teams to define data acquisition, transformation, and processing.
• Ensures adoption and support of data architecture priorities across teams.
• Designs data models and repositories for high performance access.
• Builds dimensional databases and data pipelines for analytics.
• Reviews and troubleshoots database structures and code.
• Creates prototypes and proofs of concept for iterative development.
• Monitors and optimizes data pipelines and repositories performance.
• Provides technical guidance to developers and data admins.
• Performs other duties as required by management.

Skills

Data architecture

ETL & data pipelines

SQL & database design

Stakeholder communication

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Big data platforms

Cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure)

Job description

NFI Industries is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and manage data architectures and pipelines for enterprise data used across multiple business units and external customers.

You will lead end-to-end analytics projects, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions and high-performance data repositories. This role emphasizes delivering timely insights and robust data governance.