Staff Implementations Data Engineer, Altana

• You are a seasoned data engineer and technical leader with deep expertise in building and scaling data systems
• You combine strong hands-on engineering skills with the ability to set technical direction, influence across teams, and elevate those around you
• You are someone who proactively takes ownership of the end-to-end design and operation of data solutions and refines the systems to deliver measurable results
• 8+ years of technical experience in data engineering or closely related roles
• You have extensive experience across the design, development, and maintenance of complex data models from a variety of sources and schemas
• Demonstrated track record of leading the full lifecycle (Design, Development, Test, Deploy, Monitor, Maintain) of data ingestion and standardization pipelines at scale
• A demonstrated drive for sustainable software development, self-healing data workflows, and a deep appreciation for data security and data governance
• Experience deploying and integrating software solutions across client cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), managing core services like EC2, S3, IAM, and Dockerized microservices
• Experience leading and mentoring other engineers on complex data engineering projects
• You are eligible and willing to obtain UK Security Check (SC) clearance or have an active clearance already
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of successfully interacting directly with external customers and stakeholders to scope technical work and manage expectations
• Keep up to date with latest trends in data engineering and care deeply about engineering excellence and knowledge sharing

Desirable

• The Platform Operations & Compliance team is focused on integrating Altana’s products with customers to provide unique insights, business process integrations, and create mutual value
• We execute complex customer integrations to create and customize data pipelines for unique customer scenarios; integrate proprietary customer data to our knowledge graph while supporting reliability, release, cost and control obligations that come with operating big-data pipelines for public sector customers
• The Platform Operations & Compliance team works closely with customers, as well as our internal Engineering, Machine Learning, InfoSec and Product organizations
• Develop, deploy and continuously improve distributed, big-data pipelines powering Altana’s state of the art network analysis, ML, data ingestion and fusion capabilities
• Understand and drive forward Altana's technology to make it more scalable and to meet the evolving requirements of our customer base
• Support platform reliability, cost and controls and support customer security reviews and accreditations
• Serve as the technical expert in client-facing meetings, bridging the gap between complex government requirements and our platform's technical architecture
• Work in a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, and product managers
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and best practices for data pipeline development, orchestration and deployment
• Languages: Python, Spark, SQL
• Tools: AWS, Azure, Git, Rest APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Datadog
• Datastores: Databricks, OpenSearch, Postgres