- Company Name
- Sedra Solutions
- Job Title
- Senior Data Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Senior Data Engineer
**Role Summary:** Own end‑to‑end data engineering within a GCP‑first platform, designing scalable pipelines, data models, and quality systems that support analytics, product, and ML workloads.
**Expectations:** Deliver robust, cost‑efficient data solutions, drive architecture decisions, enforce best practices, collaborate cross‑functionally, and uphold security & compliance standards in a fast‑moving startup.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines, primarily on Dataflow and other GCP services.
- Own ingestion, transformation, and modeling of data for analytics & product needs.
- Define clear data contracts with engineering and product teams.
- Deliver reliable, well‑modeled datasets in BigQuery, Elasticsearch, and Neo4j.
- Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting.
- Optimize pipelines for cost, performance, and reliability as usage grows.
- Establish best practices, patterns, and tooling for the data engineering organization.
**Required Skills:**
- 5+ years in data, backend, or platform engineering.
- Strong SQL, Python, and/or Scala proficiency.
- Proven experience building production data pipelines.
- Solid ETL patterns and data modeling knowledge.
- Experience with GCP services (Dataflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, etc.).
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
- Understanding of information security principles, ISMS policies, and cloud security best practices.
- Excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration.
- Comfortable in an ambiguous, fast‑moving startup environment.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Apache Beam/Scio experience.
- Support for analytics, experimentation, or ML workloads.
- Experience with data quality, observability, or lineage tools.
- Prior ownership of data systems in a small team.
- Domain knowledge in legal technology or forensic accounting (bonus).
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
- GCP Professional Data Engineer certification (preferred).