Data Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Construct and manage data pipelines and products that support GolfNow and Versant’s sports technology division.

• Design, create, and sustain scalable data pipelines and models within an AWS-based medallion lakehouse architecture.

• Take ownership of production data services, enhancing reliability through monitoring, automated testing, resilient design, observability, deployment strategies, and disaster recovery solutions.

• Develop reusable components and automation processes for onboarding datasets.

• Implement governance, lineage, schema evolution, security measures, and least-privilege access protocols.

• Create reliable data products for reporting, analytics, APIs, and AI-driven applications.

• Assist in transitioning pipelines and reporting workloads from legacy SQL Server, SSIS, and SSRS environments.

• Verify outputs and downstream dependencies before implementation.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and data science teams.

• Facilitate technical discussions and medium-sized cross-functional projects.

• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and provide guidance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience in building, deploying, and supporting cloud-based data pipelines.

• Proficient with AWS technologies such as Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift, or equivalent services.

• Strong skills in SQL and Python.

• Familiarity with ETL/ELT workflows utilizing both structured and semi-structured data.

• Working knowledge of data modeling, warehousing, orchestration, and contemporary data engineering practices.

• Experience with Airflow and Terraform.

• Proven ability to enhance performance, reliability, and resource efficiency of production data systems.

• Practical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.

• Capacity to independently resolve ambiguous problems.

• Understanding of upstream and downstream dependencies.

• Excellent communication skills and capability to collaborate with engineering, analytics, product, data science, and business teams.

• Bonus: Experience with dbt, Apache Iceberg, change data capture, or data products supporting LLMs or AI agents.

• Bonus: Background in SSIS, SSRS, PowerShell, or migrations from legacy SQL Server environments.

• Bonus: Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, or QuickSight.

• Bonus: Experience in an Agile engineering environment utilizing Jira and Confluence.

🏝️ Benefits

• VERSANT provides competitive compensation.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunities for growth across its diverse portfolio of brands.

• Health insurance coverage.

• Retirement plan options.

• Paid time off.

• In-person collaboration opportunities approximately 10% of the time.