Senior Data Platform Engineer — Lakehouse & AI Pipelines

Perry Weather; Kentucky; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Monthly All-Hands

Office culture in Oak Lawn (Dallas)

In-office five days a week

Job summary

Perry Weather is hiring its first Data Engineer to build the data platform from the ground up. You will design, construct, and run the lakehouse and analytics platform for executive reporting, internal AI workflows, and customer-facing data products.

You will set architecture standards, unify disparate data sources, and own data reliability. This in-office role in Dallas, TX offers growth as the company expands its data capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering or backend with data ownership.
• Designed and operated at least one cloud-native data platform in production.
• Experience with enterprise-scale data lake, lakehouse, or warehouse.
• Expert SQL and dimensional modeling knowledge.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and CI/CD practices.
• Reliable ETL/ELT across databases, SaaS APIs, and telemetry.
• Experience supporting executive reporting with real business impact.
• Hands-on depth in Synapse, Databricks, or Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Own the data platform end to end: architecture, ingestion, modeling, orchestration, testing, cost and reliability.
• Unify operational and business systems into a single source of truth.
• Own data reliability: contracts, freshness, quality SLAs, lineage, observability.
• Build foundation for data products: analytics, APIs, benchmarking, historical datasets.
• Lead AI data strategy: pipelines and centralized datasets for internal agents and workflows.
• Define data modeling standards and help hire the next data engineers.
• Collaborate with Finance, Revenue, CX, Product and executives.

Skills

Years of data engineering

Cloud-native data platform design

Data lakehouse / warehouse design

SQL & dimensional modeling

Software engineering fundamentals

ETL/ELT across varied sources

Executive reporting experience

Cloud data stack (Synapse, Databricks,

Tools

Databricks

Synapse

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Perry Weather is hiring its first Data Engineer to build the data platform from the ground up. You will design, construct, and run the lakehouse and analytics platform for executive reporting, internal AI workflows, and customer-facing data products.

You will set architecture standards, unify disparate data sources, and own data reliability. This in-office role in Dallas, TX offers growth as the company expands its data capabilities.