Senior Data Engineer – Platform Foundation

The Senior Data Engineer - Platform Foundation is a hands-on, senior-level contributor embedded in the Foundations squad. You will design, build, and evolve the shared ingestion platform that underpins data delivery across the company. The platform is the product — your job is to make it reliable, extensible, and easy for other teams to adopt.

The Foundations squad operates across three pillars: simplifying the overall data platform landscape by reducing complexity and consolidating redundant patterns; enabling structured and unstructured data ingestion at scale; and supporting the exposure of data products to consumers across the organization. You contribute to all three — making architectural decisions, writing production code, and enabling other teams through documentation and hands-on support.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Foundation Development

• Design and implement reusable ingestion components using dlt and dbt-core, covering both structured and unstructured data sources, handling high-volume, append-heavy, and schema-drifting patterns
• Own the Airflow platform end-to-end: extend and maintain DAGs and shared operators, handle deployments and version upgrades, and provide hands-on support to consuming teams
• Ensure incremental loading strategies, data quality checks, and lineage metadata are first-class outputs of every pipeline

Platform Simplification & Architecture

• Identify and eliminate redundant ingestion patterns across consuming teams, drive standardization onto shared Platform Foundation components
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to evolve the platform architecture in response to new data sources and shifting business requirements
• Support data product exposure: define and implement governed interfaces that make data reliably accessible to internal consumers
• Contribute to Terraform-managed infrastructure; participate in multi-cloud (AWS / Azure) deployment patterns

AI Tooling & Developer Productivity

• Actively use and evaluate AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc.) to accelerate platform Foundation delivery
• Champion AI tooling adoption within the squad; share best practices and guardrails around AI-generated code review
• Explore AI-powered capabilities (RAG pipelines, LLM-assisted data cataloguing) for internal platform documentation and self-service enablement

DevOps & Reliability

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitHub Actions) for platform Foundation components
• Define and enforce observability standards: DAG/Task-level alerting, SLA tracking
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical ingestion pipelines; drive post-incident improvements

Team Enablement & Stakeholder Management

• Produce platform Foundation documentation, runbooks, and enablement materials for consuming squads
• Translate ambiguous or moving business requirements into concrete technical designs — comfortable challenging scope when needed
• Mentor mid-level engineers; participate in hiring and technical assessments

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, Computer Science, or related field
• Minimum 5 years in data engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a senior / platform-level position
• Proven track record building production ingestion and transformation pipelines at scale
• Experience contributing to a shared platform or internal developer tooling consumed by multiple teams

Core Technical Skills

• Python: idiomatic, testable, production-grade code — not just scripting
• dbt-core: advanced modelling (custom materializations), testing, documentation, packages
• Apache Airflow: DAG design patterns, custom operators, dynamic task mapping, SLA management
• Cloud data platforms: comfortable with one or more major cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric)
• SQL: complex analytical queries, window functions, query profiling
• Git, CI/CD: trunk-based development, automated testing gates, pipeline-as-code

AI & Modern Tooling

• Daily user of AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Code or equivalent)
• Understands the limits of AI-generated code — applies rigorous review, not blind trust
• Interest in LLM-powered data tooling (RAG pipelines, Cortex, semantic layers) is a plus

Our Benefits — Designed With You In Mind

Comprehensive Health & Well-being Coverage

From your very first day, you’ll have access to medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage — ensuring you and your family stay healthy and protected. Also, our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers confidential support for personal and professional challenges, always ready when you need it.

Family Building Benefit

We proudly support all paths to parenthood- including fertility and infertility treatments, adoption services, and gestational surrogacy.

Generous Paid Time Off

We believe in work-life balance. That’s why we offer: 17+ paid holidays, including shut-down from December 24th through New Years Day every year. Vacation, float & wellbeing days, sick time and fully paid parental leave when your family needs you most.

Competitive Retirement Savings Plans

We Help You Plan For The Future With

• An employer match on contributions to your 401k, Roth, and Catch-Up plans
• An employer contribution, even if you don’t contribute

Income Protection & Insurance Options

Benefit from both employer-provided and voluntary plan offerings, including life insurance, group accident, critical illness, etc. - supporting the needs of you and your family and ensuring peace of mind.

Company Vehicle Lease Program

Eligible employees and their immediate families can participate in the company vehicle lease program, providing access to Stellantis vehicles with insurance, maintenance, and unlimited miles included. Plus, take advantage of exclusive discounts on Stellantis products.

Support for Your Growth and Giving Back

We believe in investing in your future and your passions:

• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan refinancing programs
• 18 paid volunteer hours each year to make a difference in your community

And so much more!

When you join us, you’re not just building a career — you’re joining a company that supports you, inside and outside of work.

At Stellantis, we assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We welcome applications from all people without regard to sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diverse teams reflect our identity as a global company, enabling us to better address the evolving needs of our customers and care for our future.

EOE / Disability / Veteran