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$150,000.00/yr - $175,000.00/yr About our client

Worth AI , a leader in the computer software industry, is looking for a talented and experienced Principal Data Engineer to join its innovative team. Worth AI is 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. The team values include extreme ownership, one team, and creating raving fans both for employees and customers. About the role

Worth AI

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Principal Data Engineer

to own the company-wide data architecture and platform. The individual will design and scale reliable batch/streaming pipelines, institute data quality and governance, and enable analytics/ML with secure, cost-efficient systems. They will partner with engineering, product, analytics, and security to turn business needs into durable data products. Responsibilities

What the individual 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. 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. 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. Provide technical leadership across squads; mentor senior/staff engineers. Run design reviews and drive consensus on complex trade-offs. Translate business goals into data products with product/analytics leaders. Requirements

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. Security best practices: RBAC/ABAC, encryption, key management, auditability. Nice to Have

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). 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 Seniority level

Mid-Senior level Employment type

Full-time Job function

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