Senior Data Engineer - Remote Eligible
Virtuous
Senior Data Engineer
We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Data Engineer to join our product engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing data infrastructure that drives strategic decision-making. You will be responsible for implementing scalable data pipelines that enable efficient data collection, transformation, and storage across environments. Utilizing technologies such as SQL and Python to ensure seamless data flow and accessibility for analytics, reporting, and machine learning applications.
This role requires a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of data's role in a nonprofit context. You will collaborate closely with a cross-functional team, including product management, engineering, and data operations, to ensure data accuracy and efficiency. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects and support our mission through data-driven insights.
The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is passionate about data, and possesses a strong technical background. You will also have extensive experience in building, maintaining and optimizing data pipelines and architectures, particularly within an environment that supports sophisticated fundraising and marketing operations.
Responsibilities
Data Architecture & Strategy: Support the design, development, and maintenance of our enterprise data warehouse and ETL/ELT pipelines. Architect and implement data solutions that support a wide range of reporting, insights, analytics, and fundraising needs, including donor segmentation, campaign attribution, and predictive modeling.
Data Pipeline Development: Support in building and managing robust, scalable data pipelines from various internal and external sources (e.g., CRM, third-party data sets) into our data warehouse. Ensure data integrity, reliability, and security.
Data Quality: Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues to ensure a single source of truth for key metrics.
Data Reporting & Visualization: Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover trends and insights. Build and manage comprehensive reports and dashboards.
Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, designers, software engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand their data requirements and deliver solutions that empower their work. Translate business needs into technical specifications.
Must Haves
Expert-level experience with SQL server and data modeling in a cloud data warehouse, such as Snowflake.
Ability to create ETL tools and optimize big data sets, including familiarity with cleaning, structuring, and aggregating the raw data to make it useful for analysis and reporting (e.g. DBT)
Experience in the nonprofit sector or with donor/constituent relationship management (CRM) systems (e.g., Virtuous, Salesforce NPSP, Blackbaud, HubSpot, EveryAction).
Familiarity with business intelligence tools (e.g., Sigma,Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
Knowledge of event-driven architecture and streaming data technologies (e.g., Kafka).
Knowledge of python and/or the ability to easily pull data from APIs
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Detail-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
Experience working with nonprofits or a strong desire to support nonprofit initiatives.
A curious and analytically-minded approach to data analysis
Nice to Haves
Ability to think strategically and develop tools to enable self-service.
Experience with AI or predictive models.
Knowledge of advanced statistical methods and data science techniques.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Strong understanding of data governance and best practices.
Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.
Advanced degree in a related field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics).
What We Offer
Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data
Employee recognition through Bonusly (birthdays, anniversaries, achievements, etc.)
401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days
We value our employee's work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PTO
Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays
Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well)
We pride ourselves on Community and host exciting company outings and events.