Data Engineer

Nightwing

$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or related field
  • 6+ years of consulting experience leading delivery teams
  • 6+ years of experience gathering non-functional requirements and defining application architecture
  • 5+ years of experience working in an AI environment
  • 5+ years of experience translating requirements into design documents
  • 5+ years of experience in software application architecture analysis and delivery
  • 5+ years of experience executing full system development life cycle implementations

Responsibilities

  • Lead data architecture and engineering delivery for AI/ML solutions
  • Ensure data is trusted, secure, observable, and scalable
  • Design and operationalize modern data foundations for LLM applications
  • Translate use cases into production-ready data pipelines and platforms
  • Drive consistent engineering standards and measurable outcomes
  • Partner with data science, ML engineering, and product teams
  • Implement strong data governance, lineage, quality controls, and monitoring

Benefits

  • Work in a cutting-edge AI/ML environment
  • Opportunity for hands-on technical and delivery management experience
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a dynamic setting
  • Contribute to the development of innovative solutions
  • Support professional growth through exposure to modern data technologies
  • Engage with advanced data architecture practices
Full Job Description

TheData Engineerwill lead the data architecture and engineering delivery that enables AI/ML/GenAI solutions, ensuring data is trusted, secure, observable, and scalable from ingestion through consumption. You will design and operationalize modern data and retrieval foundations to support LLM-powered applications including patterns such as RAG, embeddings, vector search, and governed access to structured and unstructured data. You will be partnering with a team working with data science, ML engineering, and product stakeholders to translate use cases into production-ready pipelines and platforms with strong data governance, lineage, quality controls, and monitoring. This role blends hands-on technical ability with delivery management and team development, driving consistent engineering standards and measurable outcomes in client environments.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Information Systems or related field.
  • 6+ years of consulting experience leading delivery teams, including onshore and offshore team members
  • 6+ years of experience gathering non-functional requirements and defining application architecture frameworks, including validation and testing deliverables
  • 5+ years of experience working in an AI environment
  • 5+ years of experience translating requirements into client ready design documents
  • 5+ years of experience in software application architecture analysis, design, and delivery
  • 5+ years of experience executing full system development life cycle implementations


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Certifications in AI/ML technologies and Cloud platforms, such as AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, or Azure Solutions Architect
  • 5 + years of experience in Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning
  • 5+ years of experience in Generative AI/LLMs, preferably experienced in delivering and productionizing
  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning model development, natural language processing, and data analysis; Experienced in Supervised and Unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model training, and deployment
  • 5+yearof experience in implementing cloud-based AI/ML workloads on any of AWS, Microsoft and Azure.

TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Day 1

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