Staff Data Engineer

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New York / $200000 - $250000 annum

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Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $250000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Staff Data Engineer

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Pay: $200k - $250k Base

Overview

This Staff Engineer role sits within a growing data engineering organisation supporting multiple product lines inside a modern digital media and analytics company. The position plays a critical role in shaping shared data architecture, enabling cross‑platform collaboration, and driving the company's AI and generative AI roadmap.
You'll act as a senior technical leader - influencing architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and remaining hands‑on with production systems - ensuring data platforms scale coherently as products and teams continue to integrate and evolve.


Responsibilities

    • Design, own, and evolve shared data architecture across multiple product platforms
    • Establish scalable patterns and standards for data modelling, pipelines, and observability
    • Lead technical strategy for integrating data products across teams to enable cross‑platform insights
    • Drive the AI and backend infrastructure roadmap, including pipelines supporting ML and LLM‑powered features
    • Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and ML teams to translate business needs into durable architectural decisions
    • Mentor data engineers, identify skill gaps, and raise the overall technical bar across the organisation
    • Evaluate and prototype emerging AI and generative AI technologies for real‑world product use cases
    • Contribute to engineering planning, roadmap prioritisation, and support for production systems


Must‑Have Qualifications

    • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or a closely related field
    • Proven experience designing and operating large‑scale data systems across complex, multi‑product environments
    • Strong experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent)
    • Hands‑on experience building batch and streaming data pipelines using tools such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, or similar
    • Demonstrated experience integrating AI / ML capabilities into production data systems, including LLMs or foundation models
    • Strong Python proficiency and data architecture expertise
    • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

CONTACT

Bekim Doçaj

Principal Recruitment Consultant

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