Senior Data Platform Engineering Lead (Remote)

shopltk; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Paid parental leave

Summer Fridays

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Shopltk is seeking a senior leader to head the data platforms and capabilities that power products, analytics, governance, and emerging AI use cases. You will set technical direction, manage delivery across architecture, pipelines, and data products, and balance immediate needs with sustainable platform investments.

You will lead engineers, shape data architecture and governance, and drive platform modernization, reliability, and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years in data, platform, or backend engineering with 3+ years in leadership.
• Experience owning roadmaps and balancing scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
• Strong judgment across data architecture, distributed systems, and production operations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers across data platforms, pipelines, and data products.
• Set technical direction for architecture, governance, and modernization efforts.
• Coach, hire, and develop engineers; support career growth and succession.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, security, and finance leaders on roadmaps.
• Improve data quality, observability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Leadership

Data platform leadership

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

System reliability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field

Tools

Python/Scala

SQL

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

Shopltk is seeking a senior leader to head the data platforms and capabilities that power products, analytics, governance, and emerging AI use cases. You will set technical direction, manage delivery across architecture, pipelines, and data products, and balance immediate needs with sustainable platform investments.

You will lead engineers, shape data architecture and governance, and drive platform modernization, reliability, and performance.