Senior Data Engineer - Remote (EST)

Centro Benefits Research is expanding its team and seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and build cloud-native data platforms. The role focuses on data engineering and architecture, backend infrastructure, and systems design, with responsibilities including developing scalable data pipelines and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop scalable data pipelines and models using Snowflake and dbt
• Design and operate orchestration using Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar
• Define modeling standards, storage patterns, and performance strategies
• Collaborate on backend APIs, services, integration layers, and limited frontend interfaces supporting data-driven features
• Contribute to CI/CD, environment management, and automated pipeline delivery
• Implement quality checks, lineage, SLAs, and observability
• Mentor engineers and drive architectural best practices
• Participate in system design and multi-team architectural planning

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering
• Strong experience with dbt (modeling, testing, deployment, environment strategies)
• Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar)
• Deep expertise with data warehousing platforms; e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, etc including performance tuning and RBAC
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python or Golang; advanced SQL
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven design, microservices, and data platform architecture
• Experience with metadata management, lineage tools, and observability technologies (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• Strong communication skills for leading architectural discussions across technical and non-technical teams
• Salesforce integration experience
• Experience in regulated industries
• Experience managing infrastructure with Azure, esp. AKS