Senior Data Engineer — Remote, Data Infrastructure Lead

Velir; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Velir is a remote-first, Boston-based agency seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help clients manage and leverage data through architecture design, warehousing, quality assurance, and performance optimization. You will lead data engineering initiatives, mentor teammates, and collaborate across client engagements.

The role focuses on designing scalable data solutions, implementing robust pipelines, and aligning technical work with business outcomes while communicating effectively with non-technical

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer or related role, with a focus on designing and developing data pipelines.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL. Experience with Scala and Rust is a plus but not required.
• Deep knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/ELT processes.
• Intermediate / expert proficiency with common data integration / orchestration platforms (e.g., Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow).
• Deep experience with at least one cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar).
• Experience with streaming solutions such as Spark Streaming, Kafka, or Flink is desirable but not required.
• Strong experience with at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with machine learning operations (MLOps) techniques and platforms is a plus but not required.
• Experience mentoring and advising other engineers
• Ability to define, explain, and sell long-term vision for technical architecture, technical approaches / procedures, etc.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Data Engineering Leadership: You are responsible for bridging technical gaps to lead and oversee various data engineering projects for our data solutions engagements. You possess advanced data engineering knowledge and expertise, and your assignments, projects, and programs are of significant scope and/or complexity where effective decision-making requires navigating ambiguous or uncertain conditions.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: You are responsible for contributing to alignment across the organization through influence and by translating context across different teams. You have a strong, foundational understanding of other Data Team functions, while also being able to translate these concepts for less technical colleagues.
• Project Enablement: You are responsible for ensuring that large and/or more complex engineering projects are delivered in alignment with the appropriate business outcomes. As a senior+ member of the Data Engineering function, you serve as a mentor to data solutions team members, data engineering managers, and other data engineers, and may be embedded on a client team to unblock and upskill them.

Skills

Data Movement

Data Warehousing

Programming

Technical Management

Data Infrastructure

Tools

Fivetran

Azure Data Factory

Apache Airflow

Apache Spark

dbt

Snowflake

BigQuery

Prefect

Job description

Velir is a remote-first, Boston-based agency seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help clients manage and leverage data through architecture design, warehousing, quality assurance, and performance optimization. You will lead data engineering initiatives, mentor teammates, and collaborate across client engagements.

The role focuses on designing scalable data solutions, implementing robust pipelines, and aligning technical work with business outcomes while communicating effectively with non-technical