Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Red Ventures is the parent company of Bankrate, which is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to enhance its data platform that supports analytics for financial decision-making. The role involves building and maintaining data systems, optimizing pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure in Databricks and AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.)
• Audit and document existing pipelines to identify gaps, improve reliability, and strengthen data quality
• Integrate third-party data sources and APIs into the platform, ensuring clean ingestion, transformation, and validation
• Partner closely with BI and analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable data models and solutions, bridging the gap between data engineering and the semantic layer
• Develop automated workflows for data ingestion, transformation, and validation
• Implement best practices in data architecture, security, observability, and governance
• Collaborate with data stakeholders on privacy-safe data sharing solutions, including clean-room environments and other secure data exchange methods
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team engineering standards
• Support data migration efforts, moving data from internal systems to production-grade environments
• Contribute to platform improvements that enhance performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

Skills

• 5+ years of data engineering experience designing and deploying large-scale data solutions
• Strong proficiency in SQL and solid skills in a modern language such as Python or Scala, with an emphasis on building reliable, performant data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, and AWS cloud services
• Strong understanding of data modeling, ELT/ETL design, and distributed data systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Terraform, Airflow)
• Experience integrating third-party data sources and external APIs into data platforms
• Experience supporting BI and analytics platforms such as Looker or similar
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A collaborative mindset with a track record of working well across teams

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

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