Senior Data Engineer — Remote, Data Warehousing & Analytics

Velir; Somerville, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Remote-first

Job summary

Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a remote-first culture and a strong portfolio serving US-based clients, including large non-profits and Fortune 500 brands. Senior Data Engineer candidates will design data architectures, optimize data pipelines, and mentor teams while collaborating across departments.

As a senior data engineer, you will lead data solutions projects, ensure scalable data infrastructure, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer or related role, 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.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: You are responsible for contributing to alignment across the organization through influence and by translating context across different teams.
• Project Enablement: You are responsible for ensuring that large and/or more complex engineering projects are delivered in alignment with the appropriate business outcomes. Mentoring and client-team support may be involved.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

Cloud platforms

Airflow

Spark/Kafka

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Fivetran

Apache Airflow

Kafka

Spark Streaming

AWS

Job description

Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a remote-first culture and a strong portfolio serving US-based clients, including large non-profits and Fortune 500 brands. Senior Data Engineer candidates will design data architectures, optimize data pipelines, and mentor teams while collaborating across departments.

As a senior data engineer, you will lead data solutions projects, ensure scalable data infrastructure, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.