Life.Church

Senior Data Engineer

Life.Church • $100K — $130K *
Edmond, OK 73013In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of related work experience preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree and advanced certification required.
  • Strong SQL proficiency with complex query writing skills.
  • Experience with data orchestration tools like Airflow and FiveTran.
  • Proficient in programming languages including Python and Go.

Responsibilities

  • Drive data awareness and provide actionable insights for analytics.
  • Collaborate with teams to ensure comprehensive data collection.
  • Develop a data catalog for clear data definitions and usage.
  • Plan and build automated data pipelines and processes.
  • Lead and mentor other data engineers in best practices.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption.
  • Generous employer-paid leave for vacation and sick time.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 100% coverage of short-term and long-term disability.
  • $160 annually for professional development expenses.
Full Job Description
The YouVersion Senior Data Engineer is primarily responsible for shaping, implementing, and maintaining data pipelines and systems that provide quality and reliable data. This role is critical in leading to increased engagement and growth through the Bible App globally. The Senior Data Engineer works across technical teams within the organization, including but not limited to Data Analytics, Software Engineering leaders, and Product teams. This role is responsible for defining and executing data governance and architectural decisions and teaching/guiding others on the team. The Senior Data Engineer utilizes their skills to deliver technical outcomes that align with the direction of their team to further Life.Church's mission and to reach people for Christ.

What You'll Do

  • Deliver Trusted Data: Build and maintain reliable data pipelines that provide accurate, actionable data for analytics, experimentation, and decision-making.
  • Own Data Systems: Plan, implement, and operate ingestion, ETL/ELT, and integration workflows with a focus on quality, scalability, and resilience.
  • Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with product, platform, analytics, and engineering teams to ensure relevant data is instrumented, collected, and usable.
  • Enable ML & LLM Use Cases: Prepare and curate datasets suitable for predictive modeling, experimentation, and LLM-driven applications.
  • Support Model Readiness: Design data pipelines and schemas that support training, evaluation, and inference workflows in partnership with ML-focused engineers.
  • Advance Data Governance: Contribute to data governance, stewardship, privacy, and security best practices.
  • Improve Observability: Build testing, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high data quality and early detection of issues.
  • Optimize for Scale: Performance tune pipelines, queries, and storage for efficiency and stewardship.
  • Document & Enable: Create clear documentation, diagrams, and data definitions to improve understanding across teams.
  • Mentor Others: Lead and support junior and mid-level data engineers through code reviews, pairing, and guidance.
  • Own Projects: Take responsibility for end-to-end delivery of data initiatives with minimal direction.
  • Grow Continuously: Stay current on data engineering, ML, and LLM-related tools, patterns, and best practices.


What It Takes to Thrive Here

  • Strong Ownership: Ability to independently lead complex data projects from concept to production.
  • Problem-Solving Mindset: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex technical challenges.
  • Collaboration Skills: Able to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners.
  • Quality Focus: Strong instincts around testing, monitoring, and data correctness.
  • Learning Orientation: Curiosity and motivation to grow in ML- and LLM-adjacent data engineering practices.
  • Mission Alignment: Desire to use your skills to serve others and advance God's Kingdom.


Technical Areas You Excel In

  • SQL: Strong proficiency writing complex queries and optimizing performance.
  • Programming: Experience with Python, Go, Java, or similar general-purpose languages.
  • Data Warehousing: Hands-on experience with warehouse design and modeling (e.g., BigQuery, Postgres, SQL Server, DBT).
  • Pipelines & Orchestration: Experience with Airflow, Pub/Sub, Fivetran, streaming platforms, or similar tools.
  • Cloud Platforms: Experience building data systems on GCP or comparable cloud environments.
  • APIs & Streaming: Experience integrating batch and real-time data sources.
  • ML Data Preparation: Experience preparing datasets for predictive, prescriptive, or classification models.
  • Feature Readiness: Understanding of feature engineering concepts and data requirements for ML workflows.
  • LLM Awareness: Familiarity with LLM concepts such as embeddings, prompt inputs/outputs, vector storage, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • Pipeline Support: Ability to support data flows for model training, evaluation, and inference (without requiring deep model research).
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Comfortable collaborating with ML engineers, data scientists, or platform teams on ML-enabled features.


What You Bring

  • Experience: 5+ years of data or software engineering experience building production-grade data systems.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data, or a related field (advanced certification a plus).
  • Technical Maturity: Proven ability to design, build, and operate reliable data pipelines.
  • Leadership Growth: Experience mentoring others and contributing to team-level technical direction.
  • Tooling Familiarity: Experience with tools such as GitLab, Jira, Amplitude, Backstage, or Notion is a plus.
  • Passion for Impact: Excitement about building data systems that support insight, learning, and spiritual growth.


Benefits We Offer
  • Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
  • Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
  • Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health.
  • Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
  • Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
  • Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
  • Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn't stop there-the more years on staff, the greater the investment!
  • $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth.
  • Casual dress and work environment.
  • And much more!


About Life.Church

Life.Church is a multi-site church with locations across the United States. The church was founded in 1996 and has grown rapidly since then, with a focus on creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. Life.Church offers a variety of programs and services, including worship services, small groups, and community outreach initiatives. The church is also known for its innovative use of technology, including its YouVersion Bible app, which has been downloaded over 400 million times.
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Size
800 employees
Industry
Education, Government & Non-Profit
* Ladders Estimates

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