AssetMark · 9 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$156K/yr - $173K/yr
7+ years expAssetMark is a leading strategic provider of innovative investment and consulting solutions serving independent financial advisors. The Senior Data Engineer / Technical Lead is responsible for the end-to-end design and operational excellence of the company's data platform, focusing on scalable solutions and the integration of AI/ML models. This role requires hands-on leadership and technical expertise to drive the development of robust data systems.
AdviceConsultingFinancial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Define, champion, and drive the technical vision for our modern data architecture on Azure and Snowflake
Lead the architectural design and implementation of highly scalable and resilient ELT/ETL pipelines, ensuring optimal performance for mission-critical financial workloads
Provide expert technical guidance and contribute to the evaluation and selection of new data tools and frameworks
Drive FinOps practices within the data platform, focusing on optimizing Snowflake compute usage, storage costs on Azure, and overall cost-per-query efficiency
Serve as a hands-on technical leader by writing, optimizing, and reviewing complex code primarily in Python and SQL
Define, document, and enforce engineering best practices, architectural design patterns, and coding standards across the data team
Oversee the code review process, providing constructive, high-quality technical feedback to ensure that all committed code is scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligns with the defined vision
Actively mentor and coach junior and mid-level data engineers on technical depth, debugging complex distributed systems, and modern data stack methodologies
Lead the integration of data solutions into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring robust testing, deployment automation, and operational readiness
Own the strategy and implementation of Data Observability solutions to proactively monitor the health, freshness, volume, and lineage of all production datasets
Ensure comprehensive data lineage is captured and maintained to support transparency, auditing, and impact analysis across the platform
Collaborate closely with security and compliance teams to design and implement rigorous data governance policies
Define, monitor, and enforce data Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical data assets, and lead blameless post-mortems following any data incident
Partner with Data Science and Product teams to architect the necessary data flows and infrastructure to support AI/ML model training, inference, and MLOps
Provide technical leadership in piloting and implementing Generative AI techniques to automate engineering tasks and enable new data products
Guide the team on best practices for designing and curating versioned, high-quality feature sets for production-ready machine learning models
Qualification
Required
Expert proficiency in Python and Advanced SQL
Deep, hands-on experience with Snowflake (architecture, performance tuning, Snowpark) and Microsoft Azure data services
Proven experience leading technical design sessions, defining target state architectures, and mentoring senior engineers
Strong experience with modern data stack tools, including dbt (Data Build Tool) and workflow orchestration (Airflow, Azure Data Factory)
Experience working with large-scale, complex datasets, preferably within the Financial Services or Asset Management industry
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical executive stakeholders
7+ years of progressive experience in Data Engineering or Software Engineering, with a significant portion dedicated to cloud data platforms
Benefits
Flex Time Off or Paid Time/Sick Time Off
401K – 6% Employer Match
Medical, Dental, Vision – HDHP or PPO
HSA – Employer contribution (HDHP only)
Volunteer Time Off
Career Development / Recognition
Fitness Reimbursement
Hybrid Work Schedule
Company
AssetMark
AssetMark is an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.81M2024-04-25Acquired
2019-07-17IPO
2016-12-09Series Unknown· $2.81M
Leadership Team
Louis Maiuri
Chairman and Group CEO
Erin Wood
SVP Advanced Planning
Recent News
2025-12-15
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