Sr. Data Engineer

VERSANT is a media company spanning news, sports, entertainment, cable networks, and digital brands. The Senior Data Engineer will lead the design, evolution, and reliability of data platforms supporting GolfNow and the broader sports technology ecosystem, building scalable systems for analytics, reporting, and product innovation. The role also involves establishing data engineering standards, improving quality and governance, partnering across teams, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and evolve scalable data pipelines and platforms across AWS and Microsoft technology ecosystems
• Design data models, warehouse structures, and orchestration patterns that support analytics, product insights, reporting, and business intelligence
• Establish and continuously improve standards for data quality, governance, reliability, observability, performance, and scalability across the data lifecycle
• Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and business stakeholders to define data strategy and translate complex business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Mentor and guide data engineers, helping strengthen engineering practices, technical decision-making, and team capabilities
• Evaluate and implement new tools, frameworks, and approaches that improve the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of data operations

Requirements:

• Significant experience in data engineering, including a demonstrated record of designing, building, and scaling data platforms in cloud environments
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, including experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines and optimizing large-scale data systems
• Strong knowledge of modern data architecture, including data modeling, warehousing, orchestration, and distributed data processing concepts
• Hands-on experience with AWS technologies such as Glue, Lambda, and Step Functions, as well as infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Proven ability to influence technical direction, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and collaborate across teams to deliver meaningful business and product outcomes
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to strong engineering standards, practices, and culture
• experience with AWS is strongly preferred
• experience with tools such as Airflow is valuable
• Experience with one or more of the following would be beneficial: