Principal Data & Analytics Engineer

Title:

Principal Data & Analytics Engineer

Location: Stamford, CT (On-site)

Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt

About the Role:

Principal Data & Analytics Engineer

What You'll Do:

• Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture across source ingestion, Snowflake, dbt, Omni, Hex, and related data services
• Translate business strategy and product needs into scalable technical roadmaps, architectural patterns, and platform capabilities
• Establish clear technology boundaries and guide where ingestion, transformation, semantic, reporting, and advanced analytical logic should reside
• Architect secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Snowflake environments supporting data products, BI, self-service analytics, and data science
• Partner with the Senior Data Engineer on workload management, access patterns, observability, performance, resource utilization, and production support
• Lead technical strategies for environment management, data access, workload isolation, platform resilience, and ongoing optimization
• Define standards for SQL, Python, dbt, ingestion pipelines, data modeling, testing, documentation, deployment, and version control
• Advance Git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and engineering quality across the data lifecycle
• Partner with business product owners, data stewards, Analytics Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to design trusted and reusable data products
• Lead root-cause reviews for significant incidents and convert recurring issues into durable platform or engineering improvements
• Partner with data owners and stewards to implement quality expectations, ownership, lineage, classification, access, and appropriate-use requirements
• Communicate architecture, risk, tradeoffs, and investment needs clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Platforms, or a closely related discipline
• Demonstrated experience operating as a senior technical lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, architect, or equivalent individual contributor with influence across teams
• Strong hands-on expertise with Snowflake, including data architecture, performance, security, workload management, access patterns, and cost optimization
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong experience with Python for data engineering, automation, platform tooling, or analytical workflows
• Significant experience with dbt or a comparable SQL-first transformation framework, including project architecture, testing, documentation, deployment, and reusable modeling patterns
• Experience designing modern analytical data models, including staging layers, conformed dimensions, facts, curated marts, semantic models, and reusable data products
• Strong knowledge of ingestion, ELT, orchestration, data contracts, schema evolution, data quality, lineage, and production-support practices
• Experience with Git, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, environment management, and software-engineering practices applied to data systems
• Experience defining architecture and technical standards while remaining sufficiently hands-on to build prototypes, solve complex problems, and guide implementation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to business and executive audiences
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical alignment without relying on formal people-management authority
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Even Better If:

• Experience with dltHub or another modern ingestion framework.
• Experience with Omni, Looker, or another governed semantic and business-intelligence platform.

What We Offer:

• Career Growth Opportunities
• Competitive Pay and Benefits
• Generous PTO and Parental Leave
• 401(K) Retirement Plan
• Life/ Disability Insurance
• Community Involvement
• Referral Bonuses and Product Discounts

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Our Values:

• Lead and Inspire.
• Commit to Win.
• ONE Curaleaf.
• Driven to Deliver Excellence.

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