Senior Data Platform & AI Engineer

Tyson Foods, Inc.; Springdale (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plans

Health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Tyson Foods, Inc. in Springdale, AR is seeking a Senior IT Data Engineer who will own end-to-end data pipelines, real-time data refreshes, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure across AWS/GCP/Azure.

You will drive standards for security, governance, and platform reliability, collaborating with data science and analytics teams. You will orchestrate data pipelines with Airflow or Dagster, use dbt, Kafka, and Snowflake/BigQuery, mentor engineers, and help define CI/CD, cost optimization, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in data engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of practical experience in data engineering with modern data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the overall data strategy, including multi-quarter technical roadmap.
• Architect end-to-end data solutions across cloud platforms and orchestration tools.
• Define API data contracts, governance, and CI/CD standards for data pipelines.
• Drive data observability, platform reliability, and cost optimization at scale.
• Mentor engineers and lead adoption of data mesh and data-as-a-product concepts.

Skills

Python

SQL

Leadership

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Kafka

Flink

Airflow

Dagster

dbt

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Tyson Foods, Inc. in Springdale, AR is seeking a Senior IT Data Engineer who will own end-to-end data pipelines, real-time data refreshes, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure across AWS/GCP/Azure.

You will drive standards for security, governance, and platform reliability, collaborating with data science and analytics teams. You will orchestrate data pipelines with Airflow or Dagster, use dbt, Kafka, and Snowflake/BigQuery, mentor engineers, and help define CI/CD, cost optimization, and