Senior Data Engineer, Catalant
Marketplace of independent consultants & experts
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Marketplace of independent consultants & experts
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect enterprises with elite independent consultants and firms to solve their critical business problems quickly and efficiently, and give the most sophisticated expert talent in the world the autonomy and partnership they need to thrive in a new era of agile work.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with proven experience designing and scaling modern data architectures and pipelines
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Expertise with data warehouse technologies (e.g., BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar)
- Fluency in SQL
- Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, Dagster)
- Experience working with APIs and integrating diverse data sources
- Strong understanding of data modeling and performance optimization
- Experience with streaming solutions such as Spark Streaming, Kafka, or Flink is desirable but not required
- Professional experience with at least one cloud platform such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure (Google Cloud preferred)
- Ability to partner effectively across engineering, AI/ML, analytics, and company stakeholders
- Knowledge of RAG and other design patterns for AI applications
- Ability to define, explain, and sell long-term vision for technical architecture, technical approaches / procedures, etc
- Comfortable taking ownership and setting the direction for data engineering at a growing company
- Ability to work with urgency, a strong sense of curiosity, and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to lead the data engineering function at Catalant
- You’ll design, build, and maintain the data infrastructure that powers Catalant’s product, AI/ML innovation, analytics, and reporting
- This is a highly cross-functional role: you’ll work closely with our core engineering team, AI/ML engineers driving Catalant’s AI strategy, our Director of Revenue Operations & Analytics, and business stakeholders across the company who rely on clean, reliable data for insights and decision-making
- Be part of Catalant’s journey to expand our data capabilities and transform how we leverage data for impact
- Data Architecture & Infrastructure: Design, build, and optimize the company’s data architecture, pipelines, and warehouse to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with product engineers, AI/ML engineers, analytics, and RevOps to integrate data solutions that support both product features and business intelligence
- ETL/ELT Development: Develop and maintain pipelines that move and transform data from multiple internal and external sources
- Facilitate Analytics & AI: Ensure high-quality, well-structured data is available for AI/ML applications, product analytics, and companywide reporting
- Governance & Best Practices: Establish best practices for data quality, monitoring, documentation, and security
- Enablement & Documentation: Document data standards and reusable modeling patterns to empower engineers, other teams, and future teammates
- Technical Ownership: Take projects from planning through execution, with ownership over architecture and implementation decisions
- We value collaboration and teamwork, and strive for pragmatic solutions. We’re a Python shop on the Flask framework
- We use MySQL and Elasticsearch with Big Query and Databricks pipelines all deployed in GCP. We leverage CI and CD and utilize the scrum framework to develop new features and platform improvements
- Our business operations run on Salesforce. If you get stuck on a problem, the team is right there to help get you moving again. We are excited to be adding a data engineer to our team that can help us bring our application and business operations to the next level while pioneering Consulting 2.0
Our take
Most companies rely on a full-time employee model with a few contractors and freelancers. The wonder around this is whether you are employing experts and specialists in each field you need, as the full-time employee structure limits the pool you are hiring from. Catalant (formerly HourlyNerd) is a marketplace that connects businesses with experts.
Catalant operates similarly to a recruitment agency in that it problem-solves and does the searching for its users, though it specialises in the freelance field. Users can opt to implement Catalant "as a program", where it acts as an “always on” resourcing layer, or alternatively on a project-by-project basis - meaning the company is able to serve a wide range of clientele.
With the ability to find the right talent and experts quickly and at scale, the company has grown to be trusted by the likes off Shell and Crocs, as well as supporting numerous other clients across the financial, accounting, sales and marketing sectors.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2021
$35m
SERIES F
Feb 2020
$35m
SERIES E
Total funding: $167.8m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Pre-Tax Transit
- CataWell Program
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Schedule
- Free Snacks
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
Leadership
Patrick Petitti
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously a Consultant at Vantage Partners and Booz Allen Hamilton. Before this worked in In-game Entertainment at Washington Nationals.
Rob Biederman
(Chairman & Co-Founder)Worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and MBA Associate at Bain Capital. Is currently also a Managing Partner at Asymmetric Capital Partners.
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