Principal Data Engineer
OptiverAbout the Role
Every major business function, including Finance, People, Procurement, Tax, and Compliance, operates on its own version of the truth: fragmented, siloed, and manually managed. You'll build the governed data foundation that replaces this, greenfield, on a modern stack, with real architectural ownership and production delivery in your hands.
You'll architect and own delivery of shared data products across Finance, People, Procurement, and Compliance. You'll design and build scalable data pipelines, data models, and governed data products using Databricks, dbt, SQL, and PySpark. You'll also implement governance capabilities end-to-end, including Unity Catalog access controls, column-level security, data classification, and lineage.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience designing and building production data solutions, with a track record of leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end
- Track record of architectural ownership and designing end-to-end data solutions
- Expert-level SQL and data transformation skills, with strong hands-on experience in dbt, PySpark, or both
- Designs data products for scale, writes tests without friction, and has clear opinions on where each tool's limits are
- Deep experience with Databricks, Lakehouse architectures, or comparable modern data technologies, including Delta table design, Unity Catalog governance, compute trade-offs, and downstream BI or AI workloads
- Experience implementing governance at scale, including access control, PII handling, column-level security, data lineage, and data quality management in production environments
- Experience building trusted business-facing data products within Finance, People/HR, Procurement, Operations, or similar domains
- Understands business logic well enough to challenge unclear or incorrect requirements
What You'll Get
- Performance-based bonus structure; profits are combined across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool
- The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
- Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
- Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary