[Remote] Staff Data Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harnham is a global technology organisation that supports digital media and content businesses with advanced analytics and data-driven solutions. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the technical strategy for unifying data systems and developing AI-enabled data systems, while mentoring engineers and contributing to senior-level decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve cross-platform data architecture across multiple product lines
- Lead technical strategy to unify data systems and enable integrated product capabilities
- Drive the development of AI-enabled data systems, including LLM-backed features
- Design and scale data pipelines, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and machine learning teams
- Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across distributed teams
- Evaluate and implement emerging technologies in AI and data engineering
- Contribute to roadmap planning and technical decision-making at a senior level
Skills
- Strong commercial experience in data engineering or data architecture within complex environments
- Expertise in Python and modern data engineering tooling
- Experience with Kafka and cloud data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake or similar
- Proven ability to design and scale large data platforms, including streaming and batch pipelines
- Hands-on experience building AI or LLM-powered products in production environments
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A track record of mentoring engineers and raising team capability
- Experience working across multiple systems or business units is highly valuable
- Exposure to technologies such as Spark, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, or Kubernetes is beneficial
Benefits
- Learning and development support, including technical training and conferences
- The opportunity to shape AI and data strategy in a globally recognised organisation
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