Senior Data Engineer with Kubernetes/OpenShift, Jersey City, NJ, US

Intellibee; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-Term Stability

Comprehensive Health Coverage

401(k) Plan

Green Card assistance

Job summary

Intellibee in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and operate scalable data pipelines using Airflow, dbt, and containerized platforms. The role focuses on financial and accounting data workloads with strong emphasis on performance and reliability.

You will own end-to-end data modeling, orchestration, and deployment on Kubernetes/OpenShift, collaborating with data architects and platform engineers to ensure high availability and governance compliance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise data engineering and data pipelines.
• Hands-on Airflow DAG development and dbt modeling experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Airflow DAGs for batch and event pipelines.
• Optimize DAG performance, retries, SLA monitoring, and alerts.
• Lead dbt Core implementation and CI/CD integration.
• Manage data workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift with autoscaling.
• Ensure observability and reliability of data pipelines.

Skills

Airflow DAG development

dbt modeling

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Data pipelines design

Performance tuning

Tools

Apache Airflow

dbt Core

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Senior Data Engineer with Kubernetes/OpenShift, Jersey City, NJ, US

Job Description

• We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise data engineering, including deep expertise in Apache Airflow DAG development, dbt Core modeling and implementation, and cloud-native container platforms (Kubernetes / OpenShift).
• This role is critical to building, operating, and optimizing scalable data pipelines that support financial and accounting platforms, including enterprise system migrations and high-volume data processing workloads.
• The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in workflow orchestration, data modeling, performance tuning, and distributed workload management in containerized environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain complex Airflow DAGs for batch and event-driven data pipelines
• Implement best practices for DAG performance, dependency management, retries, SLA monitoring, and alerting
• Optimize Airflow scheduler, executor, and worker configurations for high-concurrency workloads

dbt Core & Data Modeling

• Lead dbt Core implementation, including project structure, environments, and CI/CD integration
• Design and maintain robust dbt models (staging, intermediate, marts) following analytics engineering best practices
• Implement dbt tests, documentation, macros, and incremental models to ensure data quality and performance
• Optimize dbt query performance for large-scale datasets and downstream reporting needs
• Deploy and manage data workloads on Kubernetes / OpenShift platforms
• Design strategies for workload distribution, horizontal scaling, and resource optimization
• Configure CPU/memory requests and limits, autoscaling, and pod scheduling for data workloads
• Troubleshoot container-level performance issues and resource contention

Performance & Reliability

• Monitor and tune end-to-end pipeline performance across Airflow, dbt, and data platforms
• Identify bottlenecks in query execution, orchestration, and infrastructure
• Implement observability solutions (logs, metrics, alerts) for proactive issue detection
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and resiliency of data pipelines
• Work closely with data architects, platform engineers, and business stakeholders
• Support financial reporting, accounting, and regulatory data use cases
• Enforce data engineering standards, security best practices, and governance policies

Benefits at IntelliBee

• Long-Term Stability: Join us on a multi-year opportunities with room to grow.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Access quality healthcare benefits to keep you and your family well.
• Future Planning: Enroll in our 401(k) program and invest in your financial security.
• GC Assistance: We support immediate Green Card processing, if required.