penninteractive logo

Staff Data Engineer

penninteractive • Remote, Canada • Remote, United States


No Relocation

Posted: September 2, 2026

Job Description

About the Role & Team 
As a Staff Data Engineer, you'll partner closely with Data Services, Analytics Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders to design and deliver scalable, reliable, and high-quality data solutions. You will play a key technical leadership role, helping shape the architecture, standards, and future direction of our data platform. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong communication skills, a passion for data, and an interest in sports, gaming, and digital products.

About the Work 

As a key member of our team, you will:

  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize data-driven opportunities and initiatives.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines supporting analytics, reporting, product, and operational use cases.
  • Develop, test, and optimize dbt models following data modeling best practices.
  • Manage and support orchestration platforms including Airflow and exposure to Dagster.
  • Design and implement dimensional, semantic, and analytical data models to support self-service analytics and business intelligence.
  • Drive data architecture decisions and establish engineering standards and best practices across the organization.
  • Partner with data engineers and platform teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data ecosystem.
  • Develop and maintain data quality frameworks, testing strategies, and observability solutions to ensure trusted data assets.
  • Support governance initiatives through documentation, metadata management, lineage, and data ownership practices.
  • Complete complex analyses and provide actionable recommendations to business stakeholders.
  • Oversee team analysis to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and business relevance.
  • Champion adoption of data exploration and self-service analytics tools across the organization.
  • Lead technical design reviews and provide mentorship through code reviews, architectural guidance, and knowledge sharing.
  • Support data engineer hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and continued professional development.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives for critical data platform issues.
  • Other duties as required.

About the You 

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Hands-on expertise with BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, Python, SQL, and modern cloud data platforms.
  • Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT design patterns, and dimensional modeling.
  • Experience building and optimizing scalable data transformation pipelines in cloud environments.
  • Experience working with Google Cloud Platform services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer.
  • Exposure to Azure data platforms and services is a plus.
  • Proficiency with Git-based development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and software engineering best practices.
  • Experience implementing automated testing, monitoring, and data observability solutions.
  • Experience with data visualization and exploration tools such as Looker, Mode,Tableau, or similar platforms.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Proven ability to lead complex projects and influence technical direction across multiple teams.

What We Offer 

  • Competitive compensation package 
  • Fun, relaxed work environment 
  • Education and conference reimbursements. 
  • Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others  

    #LI-REMOTE

 

#LI-Remote