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Foresight

Senior Data Engineer

Foresight

. Build robust pipelines ingesting project data from scheduling and planning tools .

Posted 11/7/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and managing production data pipelines, with a strong focus on data modeling, quality assurance, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Proficient in Python, SQL, and AWS data services, with a solid understanding of data standards and pipeline automation.

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Production Data Pipeline DevelopmentPython ProgrammingAdvanced SQL QueryingData Modeling in PostgresAWS Data Services

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Hard Skills
Data Pipeline DesignData Quality ChecksData ModelingWorkflow OrchestrationSchema DesignIndexingPartitioningData ParsingFeature Pipeline PreparationEvent-Driven Data Processing
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationPragmatic Decision-Making
Tools & Technologies
AWS S3Managed DatabasesStreaming PlatformsCI/CD for Data PipelinesPgvector
Industry Keywords
Data StandardsData ResidencySOC 2GDPRConstruction Scheduling ToolsEngineering DataEnergy Sector Data

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build robust pipelines ingesting project data from scheduling and planning tools
  • Model data so every update is preserved and any two points in time can be compared
  • Build features, training datasets and search indexes powering predictions and AI recommendations
  • Build models and pipelines for customer dashboards, stakeholder reports, exports and internal analytics
  • Implement automated data-quality checks, lineage and access controls
  • Own pipelines from design through production, including data contracts and freshness and quality targets
  • Partner with ML engineers on features and datasets and with full-stack engineers on product data
  • Design pipelines that retry safely, can be rerun without duplicating data, and recover from bad inputs
  • Add monitoring and observability so data problems are caught before customers notice
  • Control costs as data volumes grow by selecting effective, simple tools
  • Help establish data standards and shape the data platform as an early data engineer

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of experience building and running production data pipelines, with ownership from source to consumer
  • Strong Python and advanced SQL, including writing and tuning complex queries
  • Deep data modeling experience in Postgres or a similar relational database, including schema design, indexing, partitioning and migrations
  • Experience parsing and normalizing messy real-world data, including large files, inconsistent formats, and missing or contradictory values
  • Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration for multi-step pipelines with dependencies, retries and backfills
  • Experience with AWS data services such as S3, managed databases, streaming and serverless compute
  • Testing mindset for data, including validation, quality checks, and reproducible, idempotent pipelines
  • Clear communication and comfort making pragmatic trade-offs on a small team
  • Bonus: experience preparing data for ML, including feature pipelines, training datasets, and offline/online data consistency
  • Bonus: experience with embeddings and vector search, such as pgvector or a search engine
  • Bonus: event-driven data, including change data capture, streaming platforms, and the outbox pattern
  • Bonus: familiarity with project scheduling data or tools from construction, engineering or energy
  • Bonus: experience with regulated enterprise or public-sector data, including SOC 2, GDPR and data residency
  • Bonus: infrastructure as code and CI/CD for data pipelines
  • Bonus: early-stage or founding-team experience
  • Bonus qualifications are not required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • PTO
  • Occasional travel may be required
  • Equal opportunity employer