Staff Data Engineer – GRC Enablement, OLTP

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $149k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Design, review, and evolve Postgres schemas for GRC product services • Set standards for indexing, constraints, partitioning, and connection pooling • Identify and resolve production performance bottlenecks • Own migration strategy and tooling, including schema changes, backfills, and zero-downtime deployments • Own change-data-capture and extraction from Postgres into OLAP systems • Define stable, documented landing-zone data contracts with the OLAP specialist • Collaborate on dbt/ETL logic for transaction and history-mart models • Establish relational modeling patterns and SQL review standards • Optimize SQL for transactional workloads, including query plans, indexing, lock contention, and multi-join performance • Define data contracts between services and downstream OLAP consumers • Implement data integrity checks, replication/failover practices, and monitoring • Manage schema and pipeline promotions through dev, test, and production using GitOps/CI/CD and gated approvals • Apply RBAC, audit logging, and encryption standards at the OLTP and extraction layers • Establish schema design patterns, SQL coding standards, and documentation • Mentor engineers on relational modeling, query optimization, and transactional systems • Lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis for production data issues and extraction failures • Partner with the OLAP specialist to define responsibility boundaries • Partner with the platform data team on infrastructure decisions while retaining ownership of GRC-specific data outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in data engineering or backend engineering with hands-on ownership of production Postgres or comparable relational OLTP systems • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Expert-level SQL and strong understanding of query planning, indexing strategy, and transactional isolation levels • Proven experience owning schema design and migrations for production Postgres services at scale • Experience building CDC/extraction pipelines, such as Debezium or Kafka Connect, feeding a cloud warehouse • Experience in regulated or highly controlled environments with strict release governance and compliance requirements • Familiarity with connection pooling, replication, and backup/recovery strategy • Working knowledge of dbt sufficient to collaborate on shared models • Track record of mentoring engineers and driving cross-team technical standards • Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office • Willingness to travel up to 10%

🏖️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire • 401(k) match • Comprehensive employee benefits package • Up to 10% travel for team jams and internal developer conference • Flexible work location: office or remotely from any location within the employee’s country of employment • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities