Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About Us

Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.

Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits

We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.

The ideal candidate for Virtuous embodies our values by :

Asking questions with a spirit of curiosity

Giving feedback freely with candor & grace, welcoming it in return

Displaying a passion for philanthropy and technology

Serving with joy. Everyone is willing to make the coffee!

Celebrating the wins & milestones of others

Assuming good intent & demonstrating trust in others

Pursuing relationships with people different from themselves & creates space to be human

Find our core values & more here .

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Data Engineer to join our product engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing data infrastructure that drives strategic decision-making. You will be responsible for implementing scalable data pipelines that enable efficient data collection, transformation, and storage across environments. Utilizing technologies such as SQL and Python to ensure seamless data flow and accessibility for analytics, reporting, and machine learning applications. Your expertise in ETL processes, data warehousing and tools like Snowflake and DBT and a familiarity with .NET will be critical for maintaining data integrity and availability.

This role requires a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of data's role in a nonprofit context. You will collaborate closely with a cross-functional team, including product management, engineering, and data operations, to ensure data accuracy and efficiency. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects and support our mission through data-driven insights. The ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is passionate about data, and possesses a strong technical background. You will also have extensive experience in building, maintaining and optimizing data pipelines and architectures, particularly within an environment that supports sophisticated fundraising and marketing operations.

Responsibilities

Data Architecture & Strategy : Support the design, development, and maintenance of our enterprise data warehouse and ETL / ELT pipelines. Architect and implement data solutions that support a wide range of reporting, insights, analytics, and fundraising needs, including donor segmentation, campaign attribution, and predictive modeling.

Data Pipeline Development : Support in building and managing robust, scalable data pipelines from various internal and external sources (e.g., CRM, third-party data sets) into our data warehouse. Ensure data integrity, reliability, and security.

Data Quality : Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues to ensure a single source of truth for key metrics.

Data Reporting & Visualization : Conduct exploratory data analysis to undercover trends and insights. Build and manage comprehensive reports and dashboards.

Collaboration : Partner closely with product managers, designers, software engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand their data requirements and deliver solutions that empower their work. Translate business needs into technical specifications.

Must Haves

Expert-level experience with SQL server and data modeling in a cloud data warehouse, such as Snowflake.

Ability to create ETL tools and optimize big data sets, including familiarity with cleaning, structuring, and aggregating the raw data to make it useful for analysis and reporting (e.g. DBT)

Experience in the nonprofit sector or with donor / constituent relationship management (CRM) systems (e.g., Virtuous, Salesforce NPSP, Blackbaud, HubSpot, EveryAction).

Familiarity with business intelligence tools (e.g., Sigma,Tableau, Power BI, Looker).

Knowledge of event-driven architecture and streaming data technologies (e.g., Kafka).

Knowledge of python and / or the ability to easily pull data from APIs

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Detail-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.

Experience working with nonprofits or a strong desire to support nonprofit initiatives.

A curious and analytically-minded approach to data analysis

Nice to Haves

Ability to think strategically and develop tools to enable self-service.

Experience with AI or predictive models

Knowledge of advanced statistical methods and data science techniques.

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Strong understanding of data governance and best practices.

Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.

Advanced degree in a related field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics).

What We Offer

Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data

Employee recognition through Bonusly (birthdays, anniversaries, achievements, etc.)

401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days

We value our employee’s work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PTO

Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays

Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well)

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