Senior Data Platform Architect — Remote

AttainFinance; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k with company match

Job summary

Attain Finance, a leading consumer credit lender in the U.S. and Canada, seeks a Principal Data Engineer to lead hands-on data architecture and engineering efforts across Snowflake, AWS, and Airflow.

You will shape data models, pipelines, and governance while guiding cross-team initiatives. You will mentor engineers, drive platform improvements, and partner with business stakeholders to align data solutions with strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, IT, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or data platform development with technical leadership.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Snowflake, SQL, Python, and Apache Airflow including data modeling and pipeline development.
• Experience designing data integration and cloud-based data architectures, including AWS services.
• Demonstrated experience identifying architectural problems and leading cross-team implementations.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and technical direction: evaluate architecture, identify gaps, propose solutions with tradeoffs and plans.
• Solution architecture: provide design reviews across projects ensuring consistent engineering principles.
• Business and domain architecture: partner with stakeholders to translate processes into data models and architecture.
• Data engineering: lead design and hands-on implementation of complex data pipelines across Snowflake, AWS, and Airflow.
• Data quality and governance: design reusable practices for data quality, testing, metadata, lineage, and security.
• Platform reliability and efficiency: drive improvements in performance, cost, observability, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Technical leadership: drive initiatives, mentor engineers, and establish reusable engineering standards.

Skills

Data quality

Metadata & lineage

Security

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, IT, or related field

8+ years in data engineering/architecture with leadership

Snowflake, SQL, Python, Apache Airflow proficiency

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Python

Apache Airflow

Job description

Attain Finance, a leading consumer credit lender in the U.S. and Canada, seeks a Principal Data Engineer to lead hands-on data architecture and engineering efforts across Snowflake, AWS, and Airflow.

You will shape data models, pipelines, and governance while guiding cross-team initiatives. You will mentor engineers, drive platform improvements, and partner with business stakeholders to align data solutions with strategic goals.