Principal Data Platform Engineer

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🕒 February 27

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Nationwide Marketing Group

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1971

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

B2B • eCommerce • Retail

Nationwide Marketing Group is North America’s leading buying, marketing and operational support organization for independent retailers, rent-to-own dealers, and custom installers in the major appliances, consumer electronics, furniture, bedding, outdoor, and custom integration industries. With over 50 years of experience, the company is dedicated to empowering independent business owners to thrive in a competitive landscape by providing essential services, programs, and advocacy.

📋 Description

• Owns the technical vision and architecture of the enterprise data platform, including data lake and data warehouse design. • Owns cost, performance, and capacity optimization for the data platform, including BigQuery query efficiency, storage lifecycle management, and workload isolation. • Designs and implements data ingestion, transformation, and modeling patterns, including dimensional modeling and slowly changing dimensions. • Designs and enforces data security, access controls, and governance standards, including IAM, data classification, retention, and auditing. • Defines and maintains data contracts, schemas, and interface standards to enable scalable, multi-team data production and consumption. • Leads migrations from legacy data systems to modern, cloud-native GCP architectures while maintaining operational stability. • Builds and operates ETL/ELT pipelines using managed tools (e.g., Fivetran or similar) and custom transformation logic. • Establishes DataOps practices, including data quality metrics, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. • Builds self-service tooling, templates, and reference implementations that enable analytics and product teams to onboard with minimal friction. • Ensures the data platform reliably supports mission-critical analytics and operational workflows. • Translates ideal-state architectures into phased, executable roadmaps aligned with business priorities. • Acts as the primary technical partner to analytics, product, and business stakeholders. • Provides technical mentorship, design guidance, and code-level support to data engineers. • Remains hands-on across design reviews, complex implementations, and production issue resolution.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or Information Technology or related disciplines • Minimum 10 years of professional experience in software, data, or platform engineering roles. • Minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience building, operating, or leading data engineering or data platform solutions in production environments. • Demonstrated expertise in modern data platforms and engineering practices, including DevOps and DataOps methodologies. • Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale data warehouses and data lakes. • Practical experience implementing operational observability, including metrics, logging, monitoring, and alerting for data systems. • Experience operating in small, fast-moving, or high-growth organizations where ownership and adaptability are required. • Demonstrated ability to lead technical design reviews, conduct code reviews, and make architectural decisions that impact multiple teams. • Proven experience leading or owning migrations from legacy data systems to modern, cloud-based data platforms.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base pay and performance bonus, dependent on role • Medical, dental, and vision benefits with low-cost coverage options • Employer paid basic life and AD&D • Employer paid short-term and long-term disability • MetLife supplemental insurance options • Matching 401(k) with 100 percent vesting • Open PTO policy, paid holidays, and ten weeks of paid parental leave • Business casual work environment • Rewards and recognition platform where you can earn points and redeem for merchandise • Discounts on electronics, cell phones, travel, wellness, health and auto, pet insurance, and more