Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. They are hiring a Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver a modern, scalable data platform, lead architecture decisions, and build production-grade pipelines for analytics and AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design and build a modern data platform across ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption
- Develop scalable batch and real-time pipelines across diverse data sources (relational, event, document)
- Establish data architecture standards, modeling practices, and engineering frameworks
- Create secure, multi-tenant data environments with strong governance and access controls
- Build data models and serving layers for reporting, self-service analytics, and AI workloads
- Evaluate and implement cloud data technologies for performance, cost, and scalability
- Partner with engineering and business leaders to align data strategy with company priorities
- Guide vendors and external partners while enforcing internal data standards and quality
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, including large-scale architecture ownership
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with tools like Spark, Kafka, or similar
- Expertise building batch and streaming pipelines in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Deep knowledge of data modeling for both transactional and analytical systems
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, Redshift, or modern data platforms
- Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and secure data design
- Experience with ETL frameworks, testing, and CI/CD-driven data workflows
- Ability to clearly communicate technical strategy and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders
Benefits
- SIGNIFICANT bonus and or equity potential
- Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
- Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan.
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