Senior Data Platform Lead - AI-Ready Analytics

Juniper Square; United States; Remote; USD 235,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision care

Life insurance

Mental wellness coverage

Fertility and growing family support

Flex Time Off

Paid family leave and holidays

Retirement saving plans

Home office setup stipend

Annual professional development

Job summary

Juniper Square is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the transformation of our data engineering and analytics into a modern Data Platform. You will define vision, architecture, and an execution roadmap to enable self-service, governed data across the company.

You will be hands-on in designing systems, prototyping components, and guiding teams to build reliable data products while elevating governance, security, and performance across pipelines and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform roles.
• Proven experience architecting large-scale data and analytics systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern data stacks in cloud environments.
• Deep expertise in data modeling for analytics (dimensional, star/snowflake, Data Vault, etc.)
• Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java
• Advanced expertise in dimensional data modeling and semantic layers (e.g., dbt, Cube) to provide "agent-readable" context.
• Expertise in real-time streaming frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Beam.
• Experience building reporting and BI solutions at scale
• Strong understanding of data governance and security best practices

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end data and analytics architecture strategy.
• Design scalable batch, streaming, and real-time data systems.
• Establish standards for data modeling, semantic layers, and reporting.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical decision-making.
• Drive adoption of modern architectures (lakehouse, data mesh, real-time analytics).
• Design and prototype critical data platform components.
• Write production-quality code for complex or high-impact areas.
• Review schemas, transformations, dashboards, and analytics models.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues across pipelines and queries.
• Build AI-ready data infrastructure, including vector stores and retrieval systems.

Skills

SQL

Python

Scala

Java

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Cloud data stacks

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

dbt

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Spark

Flink

Beam

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Juniper Square is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the transformation of our data engineering and analytics into a modern Data Platform. You will define vision, architecture, and an execution roadmap to enable self-service, governed data across the company.

You will be hands-on in designing systems, prototyping components, and guiding teams to build reliable data products while elevating governance, security, and performance across pipelines and AI-enabled workflows.