Senior Solutions Architect – Airflow

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

📋 Description

• Facilitate architecture reviews, workshops, and technical design sessions with engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

• Create comprehensive platform architectures that integrate Airflow with cloud infrastructure, computing frameworks, and data platforms.

• Evaluate delivery work to maintain high standards for scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.

• Identify and resolve issues while guiding customers through deployments, migrations, and platform modernization efforts.

• Develop reusable tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best practices to enhance delivery quality throughout the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture.

• Expertise in Airflow, including authoring and deploying Dags to production, monitoring executions, and troubleshooting issues.

• Experience in optimizing Airflow performance, refactoring Dag code, appropriately sizing infrastructure, and implementing data quality checks and alerts.

• Demonstrated success in guiding customers through platform deployments, migrations, or technical transformations while managing scope, timelines, and stakeholder conflicts.

• Strong foundation in designing cloud-native data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, with knowledge of enterprise networking, security, and identity patterns.

• Proficiency in programming with Python and SQL.

• Familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery, or Redshift.

• Proven ability to lead architecture discussions and influence technical decisions alongside engineering leaders and executive stakeholders.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills, capable of translating business requirements into scalable, production-ready architectures.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity component

• Comprehensive benefits package