Principal Data Engineer
hace 10 días
Orlando
Job Description Worth AI, a leader in the computer software industry, is looking for a talented and experienced Principal Data Engineer to join their innovative team. At Worth AI, we are on a mission to revolutionize decision-making with the power of artificial intelligence while fostering an environment of collaboration, and adaptability, aiming to make a meaningful impact in the tech landscape.. Our team values include extreme ownership, one team and creating reaving fans both for our employees and customers. Worth is looking for a Principal Data Engineer to own the company-wide data architecture and platform. Design and scale reliable batch/streaming pipelines, institute data quality and governance, and enable analytics/ML with secure, cost-efficient systems. Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and security to turn business needs into durable data products. Responsibilities What you will do: • Architecture & Strategy, • Define end-to-end data architecture (lake/lakehouse/warehouse, batch/streaming, CDC, metadata)., • Set standards for schemas, contracts, orchestration, storage layers, and semantic/metrics models., • Publish roadmaps, ADRs/RFCs, and “north star” target states; guide build vs. buy decisions., • Platform & Pipelines, • Design and build scalable, observable ELT/ETL and event pipelines., • Establish ingestion patterns (CDC, file, API, message bus) and schema-evolution policies., • Provide self-service tooling for analysts/scientists (dbt, notebooks, catalogs, feature stores)., • Ensure workflow reliability (idempotency, retries, backfills, SLAs)., • Data Quality & Governance, • Define dataset SLAs/SLOs, freshness, lineage, and data certification tiers., • Enforce contracts and validation tests; deploy anomaly detection and incident runbooks., • Partner with governance on cataloging, PII handling, retention, and access policies., • Reliability, Performance & Cost, • Lead capacity planning, partitioning/clustering, and query optimization., • Introduce SRE-style practices for data (error budgets, postmortems)., • Drive FinOps for storage/compute; monitor and reduce cost per TB/query/job., • Security & Compliance, • Implement encryption, tokenization, and row/column-level security; manage secrets and audits., • Align with SOC 2 and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR/CCPA; HIPAA if applicable)., • ML & Analytics Enablement, • Deliver versioned, documented datasets/features for BI and ML., • Operationalize training/serving data flows, drift signals, and feature-store governance., • Build and maintain the semantic layer and metrics consistency for experimentation/BI., • Leadership & Collaboration, • Provide technical leadership across squads; mentor senior/staff engineers., • Run design reviews and drive consensus on complex trade-offs., • 10+ years in data engineering (including 3+ years as staff/principal or equivalent scope)., • Proven leadership of company-wide data architecture and platform initiatives., • Deep experience with at least one cloud (AWS) and a modern warehouse or lakehouse (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks)., • Strong SQL and one programming language (Python or Scala/Java)., • Orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect), transformations (dbt or equivalent), and streaming (Kafka/Kinesis/PubSub)., • Data modeling (3NF, star, data vault) and semantic/metrics layers., • Data quality testing, lineage, and observability in production environments., • Feature stores and ML data ops; experimentation frameworks., • Cost optimization at scale; multi-tenant architectures., • Governance tools (DataHub/Collibra/Alation), OpenLineage, and testing frameworks (Great Expectations/Deequ)., • Compliance exposure (SOC 2, GDPR/CCPA; HIPAA/PCI where relevant)., • Model features sourced from complex 3rd-party data (KYB/KYC, credit bureaus, fraud detection APIs) Benefits • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision), • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA), • Life Insurance, • Unlimited Paid Time Off, • 9 paid Holidays, • Family Leave, • Work From Home, • Free Food & Snacks (Access to Industrious Co-working Membership!), • Wellness Resources