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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining high-performance data acquisition pipelines, with a strong focus on modular design, schema validation, and automated testing practices. Proven ability to lead technical architecture decisions and mentor engineering teams while ensuring data integrity and security.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Data Integration And Ingestion PipelinesPython ProgrammingTechnical LeadershipModular DesignAutomated Testing And CI/CD Practices
Tech Stack
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Key responsibilities & impact- Build and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines integrating systems across WEX and third-party vendors
- Lead design and delivery of a modular ingestion platform with reusable connectors and configuration-driven onboarding
- Establish metadata and configuration patterns to reduce source-specific development and support Data Acquisition as a Service
- Build schema validation, completeness checks, reconciliation, duplicate prevention, and audit logging into shared ingestion components
- Support safe retries, replay, backfills, and schema evolution
- Design batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion patterns meeting freshness, throughput, and recovery requirements
- Evaluate performance, source-system impact, and operating cost when selecting and extending ingestion technologies
- Ensure traceability, lineage, and security through integration with control plane and governance systems
- Lead design and code reviews
- Maintain technical specifications and architectural decisions
- Mentor engineers in reusable platform design
- Establish automated testing and CI/CD practices for ingestion code, connector configuration, and infrastructure
- Partner with production support on complex escalations, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements
- Establish baselines and outcomes with engineering and product leadership, including reducing onboarding effort, increasing reusable capability adoption, improving data completeness and freshness, and reducing deployment failures
Requirements
What you’ll need- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience delivering production distributed systems or data platforms
- Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or another systems-focused language
- Experience with data integration and ingestion pipelines
- Solid engineering fundamentals, including version control, modular design, testing, and performance tuning
- Experience designing and operating production integrations handling schema evolution, failure recovery, observability, and secure access
- Ability to lead architecture decisions, explain engineering tradeoffs, resolve cross-team dependencies, and guide implementation through production adoption
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for design, coding, testing, or documentation
- Validation of AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, and maintainability
- Collaborative mindset across domains, products, and infrastructure layers
- Strong ownership and accountability
- Candidate must reside within 30 miles of Portland, ME; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; or Seattle, WA
- M.Sc. in a related field is a plus but not required
- Experience building reusable connectors, metadata-driven ingestion services, or configuration-driven onboarding capabilities is preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Health, dental and vision insurances
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid time off
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Quarterly or annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringData PlatformsSchema EvolutionPerformance TuningVersion ControlDistributed SystemsAI-Assisted Engineering ToolsValidation Of AI-Generated OutputsBatch And Streaming Ingestion PatternsMetadata-Driven Ingestion Services
Soft Skills
Collaborative MindsetStrong Ownership And Accountability
Industry Keywords
Data Acquisition As A ServiceControl Plane IntegrationGovernance SystemsReconciliationDuplicate PreventionAudit LoggingRoot-Cause AnalysisCross-Team DependenciesConfiguration-Driven OnboardingProduction Integrations