Senior Data Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Pipelines

Nxt Level; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Nxt Level in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II to own and evolve data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving. You will write pipelines, debug production issues, improve observability, and ship code alongside the team.

The role requires independent architectural decisions and collaboration with Analytics Engineering, Data Science, and Product teams. You will mentor others and drive AI-enabled data engineering workflows.

Qualifications

• Senior-level data engineering experience with ownership of production data pipelines.
• Experience designing data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving.
• Hands-on experience building, debugging, and operating production data systems.
• Ability to evaluate platform tradeoffs across scalability, cost, reliability, freshness, and simplicity.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and leading large technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving
• Make project-level architectural decisions independently
• Evaluate tradeoffs across freshness, cost, scalability, reliability, and simplicity
• Lead platform-level improvements across warehouse cost management, compute efficiency, and access control
• Treat reliability, observability, and cost efficiency as core design constraints
• Identify and lead technical initiatives that improve the long-term health of the data platform
• Proactively surface investments across orchestration, CI/CD, data access, and developer experience before they become blockers
• Drive large, complex technical projects or multiple cross-functional initiatives at once
• Own outcomes across projects that span Data, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, and Product teams
• Lead monitoring and testing strategy for your domain
• Close observability gaps, build proactive alerting, and help resolve the hardest production issues
• Influence technical decisions and architectural direction beyond the Data & Analytics team
• Partner directly with Engineering, Product, and Design stakeholders on infrastructure decisions that impact business roadmaps
• Mentor data engineers and analytics engineers through architecture reviews, modeling decisions, and technical guidance
• Integrate AI meaningfully into data engineering workflows
• Build tooling and automation that creates leverage for the broader team, not just individual productivity
• Coach others on effective, validated use of AI in data engineering workflows

Skills

Production data pipelines

Data pipeline architecture

Hands-on data engineering

Observability and reliability

AI in data engineering

Job description

Nxt Level in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II to own and evolve data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving. You will write pipelines, debug production issues, improve observability, and ship code alongside the team.

The role requires independent architectural decisions and collaboration with Analytics Engineering, Data Science, and Product teams. You will mentor others and drive AI-enabled data engineering workflows.