Senior Data Engineer

About the Role

The Senior Data Engineer will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing Mission’s data infrastructure as part of our modern data platform initiative. This hands-on engineering role will focus on building scalable data pipelines, enabling a centralized enterprise data warehouse, and supporting business reporting needs. The ideal candidate will collaborate across technology, operations, product, and analytics teams to create high-quality, governed, and reusable data assets, while supporting a long-term architecture aligned with Mission’s growth. This role is highly technical and focused on execution and is ideal for a data engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and is passionate about data quality, performance, and scalability.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and store data from third-party vendors and internal systems using APIs, files, and databases.
• Build and maintain a cloud-based data warehouse solution in partnership with architects, ensuring clean, normalized, and performant data models.
• Establish and monitor reliable data ingestion processes across systems with varying grain and cadence, ensuring data quality and completeness.
• Collaborate with API and integration teams to develop secure, robust data exchange processes with external vendors and internal services.
• Set up and manage data connections from the warehouse to BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Looker, Tableau) to enable self-service analytics and dashboarding.
• Document data flows, schemas, and definitions, and help drive data governance and standardization efforts across the organization.
• Implement data validation, cleansing, and enrichment processes to ensure high-quality data for financial reporting and analytics
• Ensure compliance with data standards, regulatory requirements (e.g., NAIC, SOX), and data security best practices
• Provide technical leadership in data engineering best practices, including version control, CI / CD for data pipelines, testing, and observability.
• Build initial dashboards in BI tools.
• Give directions to data engineers to ensure that projects are completed on time and to a high standard.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualification

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Additional Information

This is a remote position. Planned, in-office activities may be required on occasion (typically 2-4x per year).

You must live in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States without requirement of employment sponsorship / visa.