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In this role, you will be responsible for creating dependable pipelines, overseeing cloud-based data warehouses, and guaranteeing that our machine learning and analytics units have high-availability access to data.\nAt Ursa Space, a Senior Data Engineer does more than just move information; you will be architecting a scalable \"reservoir\" capable of processing extensive and intricate geospatial datasets, including raw satellite imagery, economic intelligence, and metadata.A key component of this will be creating a secure data lake architecture with fine-grained, role-based access controls.\nAs a technical authority and practice lead, you will function with significant autonomy to define engineering benchmarks, mentor fellow engineers, and bolster the capabilities of our data platform. You will turn difficult technical and organizational hurdles into viable data strategies and scalable solutions, taking full ownership of the enterprise data ecosystem's reliability, performance, governance, and long-term health.\nJob Responsibilities\nDefine and evolve the data engineering technology roadmaps aligned to business strategies, enterprise architecture, information security standards.\nProvide architectural leadership on complex, cross-team data initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable.\nLead data platform and vendor evaluations, guiding build vs. buy decisions and ensuring consistency with enterprise technical direction.\nDevelop and promote data engineering standards for lakehouse architecture, ELT/ETL frameworks, data modeling, CI/CD, observability, and governance.\nAnticipate technology impacts across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure-and guide teams through informed trade-off decisions including assessing new technology. \nDay-to-day hands-on execution and implementation of solutions - using modern data platforms, initiatives, processes and practices.\nBe responsible for technical direction for large or multi-team delivery efforts, ensuring application of modern data engineering and DevSecOps practices.\nConduct architectural and technical reviews of solution designs, code, and delivery approaches to raise quality and consistency.\nChampion automation, observability, and operational excellence to ensure platforms remain reliable, performant, and cost effective.\nPilot emerging technologies and guide their adoption into stable enterprise capabilities when appropriate.\nDrive continuous improvement of engineering practices, tooling, automation and operational processes.\nBased on the needs of the company, you may be required to work occasional nights and weekends.\nAll other duties as assigned.\n Requirements\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience typically requires an advanced degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10+ years of relevant data engineering experience in enterprise environments.\nMastery-level knowledge of the data engineering field and modern data platform technology delivery, with deep experience in one or more key domains such as lakehouse architecture, distributed data processing, cloud data warehousing, data transformation frameworks, or data governance.\nDemonstrated ability to build and complete implementation plans for complex, enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines. These platforms support analytics, reporting, AI/ML, and operational decision-making. They also impact on the achievement of the foundation’s priorities.\nProven experience developing and implementing standards, processes, and operational plans that improve stability, resilience, security, and performance of critical data platforms.\nDeep expertise with cloud-based data platforms - Azure Data services, Databricks, Snowflake and DBT cloud.\nStrong foundation in enterprise data architecture fields and the development of secure, scalable, aligned technology solutions.\nAdvanced experience with CI/CD pipelines for data workloads, infrastructure as code, cloud-native operational models, and modern version control strategies.\nStrong proficiency in programming using data processing tools like Azure Data Factory, Fivetran, Databricks notebook, DBT cloud, ETL/ELT frameworks, as well as programming languages such as Python, SQL, Spark (PySpark/Scala) and scripting languages common to cloud data environments.\nDemonstrated success leading large-scale and complex data modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy data warehouses to modern cloud-based data platforms.\nExperience managing and reviewing vendors or offshore engineering work to ensure alignment with enterprise data standards, architecture principles and long-term sustainability.\nExcellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to clearly and succinctly translate complex data architecture concepts into actionable recommendations for senior leadership, technical teams, and non-technical partners across multiple functions.\nDemonstrated ability to enable AI through data, with a strong understanding of AI use cases and the data architecture, quality, governance, lineage, and scalability requirements necessary to successfully support AI initiatives.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving abilities, demonstrating a dedication to operational excellence, continuous learning, and improving data engineering practices.\nMay mentor, review, and delegate work to more junior engineers, building capability and maturity across the data engineering group.\nCompensation\n$150,000 - $200,000, relative to skills and experience\nLocation\nWe are headquartered in Ithaca, NY and have a remote workforce in other locations throughout the United States.\nPlease note: applications without a relevant cover letter will not be considered. 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