Senior Staff Data Platform – AI Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $174k - $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Workiva

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Workiva is a cloud-based, AI-powered platform that unifies financial reporting, risk and compliance management, and sustainability reporting. It enables teams to connect data across systems, collaborate in real time, automate reporting (including XBRL tagging), and maintain auditability and traceability for regulated disclosures and assurance processes. Workiva serves large enterprises and finance, legal, audit, and sustainability teams to accelerate reporting, improve accuracy, and reduce risk.

📋 Description

• Define the multi-year data platform architecture and roadmap, including technology evaluations and buy/build/adopt recommendations for executive leadership • Set Snowflake standards for warehouses, account configuration, environments, RBAC, replication, performance, and cost management • Design dbt Mesh boundaries and shared guardrails that allow domain teams to develop and operate data products independently • Establish integration standards for Airflow, Fivetran, Atlan, data sharing, and other platform tools • Design governed data-access patterns for AI and agentic workflows, including context retrieval, MCP-based access, and analytical agent evaluation • Partner with Security and GRC on FedRAMP boundaries, least-privilege access, masking, and reviews of new data integrations • Improve platform efficiency through warehouse tuning, resource monitors, query tags, and cost attribution • Guide cross-team architectural decisions, mentor senior engineers, and communicate platform strategy to VP and executive stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years of data or platform engineering experience • 5+ years owning Snowflake account or platform operations at enterprise scale • Deep experience with Snowflake administration, RBAC, SQL tuning, resource monitors, query tags, and cost optimization • Experience making architectural tradeoffs across security, reliability, performance, cost, and domain autonomy • Track record of setting technical direction and influencing multiple teams without direct authority • Experience with dbt Core or Cloud, dbt Mesh, or multi-project data architectures • Familiarity with data governance, cataloging, lineage, Atlan, and compliance controls such as FedRAMP or SOX • Experience with AWS data services, Python automation, and orchestration or ingestion tools such as Airflow and Fivetran • Experience designing governed data access for AI applications, MCP servers, semantic layers, or analytical agent evaluation • Experience supporting BI, reverse-ETL, and operational data consumers in a SaaS environment • SnowPro certification and experience mentoring Staff-level engineers • Strong communication skills, including presenting technical strategy and tradeoffs to executive audiences • Less than 10% travel • Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis • Workiva will not provide visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire • 401(k) match • Comprehensive employee benefits package • Remote work from any location within the employee’s country of employment • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities