Senior Data Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Pipelines

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an experienced data/analytics engineer to design and build scalable data platforms, pipelines, and services powering analytics, business decisions, ML, and AI-enabled solutions.

You will transform messy datasets into trusted data products, create reusable frameworks, APIs, and self-service capabilities that improve data accessibility and developer productivity, while ensuring security and observability across analytics workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data platforms.
• Strong expertise in SQL, data modeling, and relational and non-relational database technologies.
• Strong programming skills in Python and at least one additional language such as Scala or Java.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with technologies such as Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Hadoop, or similar modern data platforms.
• Strong understanding of data quality, governance, security, observability, lineage, and operational excellence practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions.
• Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, architects, software engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
• Translate business objectives into scalable technical architectures and implementation strategies.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and raise the engineering bar.
• Contribute to innovation initiatives, proof-of-concepts, hackathons, and emerging technology experiments.

Skills

Data engineering

Software engineering

Analytics engineering

SQL

Python

Scala/Java

Cloud platforms

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

Hadoop

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an experienced data/analytics engineer to design and build scalable data platforms, pipelines, and services powering analytics, business decisions, ML, and AI-enabled solutions.

You will transform messy datasets into trusted data products, create reusable frameworks, APIs, and self-service capabilities that improve data accessibility and developer productivity, while ensuring security and observability across analytics workloads.