Staff Data Engineer

What You'll Do

• Own the Data Problem Space: Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, chapter-wide data solutions that impact multiple teams, products, and decision-makers.
• Architect Data Platforms: Design scalable, reliable data architectures including ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics layers with long-term sustainability in mind.
• Set Technical Standards: Establish and uphold best practices for data modeling, pipeline design, testing, monitoring, and documentation across the organization.
• Champion Data Quality & Trust: Drive initiatives focused on data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and observability to ensure trusted, decision-ready data.
• Influence Across Chapters: Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and leadership teams to align data strategy with business and ministry goals.
• Resolve Complex Issues: Diagnose and solve the most complex data reliability, performance, and scaling challenges across pipelines and platforms.
• Enable Insight at Scale: Support and evolve event instrumentation, user data processing, and analytical datasets that power insights and experimentation.
• Mentor & Develop: Guide data engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Drive Governance & Security: Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to advance data governance, privacy, and security practices across the data ecosystem.

What It Takes to Thrive Here

• Deep Data Expertise: Proven ability to design, build, and operate complex data systems at scale.
• Staff-Level Leadership: Ability to influence technical direction beyond your immediate team and lead through impact, not authority.
• Architectural Vision: Strong intuition for data architecture tradeoffs, with experience balancing short-term needs and long-term strategy.
• Strategic Thinking: Comfortable navigating ambiguity, setting direction, and prioritizing high-leverage work.
• Clear Communication: Able to explain complex data concepts to engineers, analysts, and non-technical partners.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Passion for using data and technology to help people grow spiritually and connect with God.
• Heart for Ministry: View your work as a calling to serve others and advance God’s Kingdom.

Technical Areas You Excel In

• Programming: Highly proficient in Python, Go, Java, or similar general-purpose languages used for data systems.
• SQL Expertise: Expert-level SQL skills, including complex queries, performance tuning, and analytical modeling.
• Data Warehousing: Deep experience with warehouse design and modeling principles (e.g., BigQuery, Postgres, MySQL).
• Pipelines & Orchestration: Extensive experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, Pub/Sub, or similar.
• Streaming & APIs: Strong background in streaming data and API-based integrations.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience designing and running data systems on cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Event Data: Familiarity with user event instrumentation and processing (e.g., Firebase, GA4, or similar systems).
• Data Quality & Observability: Advocate for testing, monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated validation.
• Governance & Security: Partner with stakeholders to uphold standards around data privacy, access, and compliance.
• Documentation & Enablement: Create clear diagrams and documentation to support shared understanding and adoption.

What You Bring

• Experience: 7+ years of hands-on data or software engineering experience delivering impactful, production-grade systems.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data, or a related field.
• Leadership Mindset: A track record of mentoring others and raising the technical bar around you.
• Learning Orientation: Passion for continuous learning and adapting to new technologies.
• Passion for Impact: Excitement about building data systems that support meaningful decisions and spiritual growth at global scale.

Benefits We Offer

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons. 
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health. 
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase. 
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment! 
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth. 
• Casual dress and work environment.
• And much more!

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