The Points GuyRemote
Senior Data Engineer | The Points Guy
United States of America
Full Time
1 week ago
$100,000 - $182,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
PythonScalaSQLMachine LearningData LakeAnalyticsSnowflakeDatabricksSparkKafkadbtAWSTerraformGitHub ActionsVaultEC2LambdaS3GitHubCRMCI/CDCommunication
About this role
The Points Guy is a part of Red Ventures, and they are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build data products and create the foundation for machine learning and business analytics efforts. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to design and optimize data pipelines, ensuring best practices in data architecture and governance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure in Databricks and AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.)
- Build high impact data products - Develop scalable, well tested data models that drive lifetime value, churn, and propensity insights powering RV sites and CRM activations
- Engineer reliable data pipelines - Implement Python/Spark jobs, dbt transformations, and Orchestration with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Terraform)
- Partner with analytics and product teams to translate business needs into scalable data models and solutions
- Implement and promote best practices in data architecture, security, observability, and governance
- Collaborate with data stakeholders on privacy-safe data sharing solutions, including clean-room environments and other secure data exchange methods
Requirements:
- Must be located in the Eastern or Central Time Zone and be based in the United States
- 5+ years designing and developing on AWS and Databricks data lake and lakehouse architectures
- Expert in SQL, Python/Scala
- Hands on with Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming in production
- Dimensional, data vault, and real time schemas; SQL performance tuning on data warehouses, including Snowflake and Databricks SQL
- dbt, GitHub Actions, Terraform; strong CI/CD experience
- Proven experience building scalable data pipelines and integrations leveraging APIs
- System design experience for batch and real time
- Prior work in consumer finance, banking or fintech
- Proven ability to translate technical concepts to non technical audiences; excellent written & verbal communication
- Experience modernizing or migrating large-scale data environments to Databricks or AWS
- Familiarity with data governance, cataloging, and access-control frameworks
- Proven success influencing technical direction and driving adoption of best practices across teams