Senior Data Engineer

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Job Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end reliability of data pipelines across ingestion, transformation, and serving layers 

• Design scalable ELT/ETL pipelines with retry, backfill, and safe reprocessing capabilities 

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response patterns to improve pipeline stability 

• Enforce SDLC best practices (branching strategy, code reviews, CI/CD, release management) 

• Establish traceable change management with documented approvals and rollback plans 

• Implement and maintain data quality testing, freshness checks, and anomaly detection 

• Detect and manage schema drift and breaking changes proactively 

• Improve pipeline observability through monitoring of job failures, anomalies, and cost spikes 

• Optimize pipeline performance and warehouse costs through workload tuning and partitioning 

• Track and report on reliability KPIs (e.g., pipeline success rate, SLA adherence, MTTR) 

• Develop and maintain runbooks, recovery procedures, and operational documentation 

• Automate common operational workflows such as backfills and dependency management 

• Partner with Analytics Engineering and BI teams to support reliable downstream consumption 

• Collaborate with Platform, Governance, and Security teams on controls and audit readiness 

• Support delivery of incremental releases to improve stability and reduce operational risk 

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems or a related field or equivalent experience. 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience operating production data pipelines end‑to‑end to include but not limited to the following: 

• Proven experience applying SDLC best practices in data engineering environments, including experience supporting CI/CD for data engineering workflows 

• Hands‑on experience implementing data quality testing and production controls 

• Strong SQL and programming experience (e.g., Python) 

• Experience with orchestration, monitoring, and performance optimization of data workloads 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in regulated or audit‑focused environments 

• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, or cataloging workflows 

• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, or observability solutions 

• FinOps mindset for data warehouse cost optimization 

• Knowledge of data reliability or data quality frameworks 

• Experience collaborating with Security or Compliance teams 

• Familiarity with change management or release processes in production environments 

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Certain states require us to disclose the pay range and benefits summary for job openings. For Colorado residents, the compensation range for this position: $135,100 - $158,900. For Washington residents, Illinois residents, New York residents, and Southern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $148,600 - $174,800. For Northern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $155,300 - $182,700. Compensation may vary based on skills, role, and location. Eligible employees at certain levels can participate in a discretionary long-term financial incentive plan, subject to plan participation rules.

Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including: 

• Medical, dental, vision

• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time

• Flexible work arrangements

• 401K with Profit Sharing

• Wellness program

• Generous parental leave

• 11 paid holidays

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