Senior Data Platform Architect & Tech Leader

Edf Renewable Energy, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health coverage

401k with match

Paid parental leave

Learning & career development

Mentorship program

Job summary

EDF Renewable Energy, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platform to design and deliver a modern cloud data platform, owning end-to-end data flow from sources through Snowflake to analytics-ready data products, and guiding engineers and stakeholders.

This hybrid role requires 8+ years in data engineering, deep AWS and Snowflake experience, Python and dbt proficiency, strong SQL skills, and a track record of architecture and leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field.
• 8+ years delivering production-grade data platforms.
• Deep AWS and Snowflake experience.
• Proficient Python and dbt for data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements cloud-native data integrations using APIs and AWS services to bring data into Snowflake from various sources.
• Designs, builds, and maintains data transformation models using dbt, creating dimensional models, data marts, and business logic from stakeholders.
• Manages Snowflake platform infrastructure including environment setup, performance optimization, cost management, security configuration, and access controls.
• Leads cross-functional collaboration with business stakeholders, product management, analytics, governance, architecture, and data engineering.
• Applies data quality frameworks, testing, monitoring, and alerting to ensure data accuracy and pipeline reliability.
• Contributes to and implements the vision for Data Architecture, translating requirements into tech priorities and presenting progress to leadership.
• Performs data integration tasks and partners with Reporting Engineers to optimize data models for visualization.
• Documents data models, lineage, and technical architecture to support data governance initiatives.

Skills

Data engineering

AWS

Snowflake

Python

dbt

SQL

CDC

SCD

Git

Terraform

Airflow

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Git

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

dbt

Job description

EDF Renewable Energy, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platform to design and deliver a modern cloud data platform, owning end-to-end data flow from sources through Snowflake to analytics-ready data products, and guiding engineers and stakeholders.

This hybrid role requires 8+ years in data engineering, deep AWS and Snowflake experience, Python and dbt proficiency, strong SQL skills, and a track record of architecture and leadership.