Senior Data Platform Engineer: Real-Time Data Architect

RAZR Marketing, Inc.; Minnetonka (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

RAZR Marketing, Inc. in Minnetonka, MN is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead design, implementation, and evolution of our data platform infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end architecture of CDC-based ETL pipelines and reporting, mentor the team, and set standards for how data moves through our systems to support analytics and business decisions. This is a technical leadership role with autonomy to drive architectural decisions and partner with product and engineering teams to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles.
• Deep experience with streaming architectures: Kafka, Flink, CDC patterns (Debezium or equivalent).
• Strong Snowflake expertise: dynamic tables, warehouse optimization, access control, cost management.
• Production experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK).
• SQL fluency — you can write, optimize, and debug complex analytical queries.
• Experience designing medallion or multi‑layer data architectures.
• Track record of leading technical design decisions and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain our real‑time and batch data pipelines built on Debezium, Kafka, Flink, and DeltaStream.
• Own the Snowflake data warehouse strategy including schema design, dynamic table definitions, medallion‑architecture layering (bronze/silver/gold), and query performance.
• Design and implement infrastructure‑as‑code for the data platform using Pulumi.
• Build and maintain the reporting layer that powers business intelligence through Sigma.
• Define data quality standards, monitoring, and alerting across the pipeline.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable data models.
• Establish patterns for incremental processing, late‑arriving data, and schema evolution.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies as the platform evolves.

Skills

Data engineering

Streaming data

SQL

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Debezium

Pulumi

Terraform

CDK

Job description

RAZR Marketing, Inc. in Minnetonka, MN is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead design, implementation, and evolution of our data platform infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end architecture of CDC-based ETL pipelines and reporting, mentor the team, and set standards for how data moves through our systems to support analytics and business decisions. This is a technical leadership role with autonomy to drive architectural decisions and partner with product and engineering teams to