Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen · 13 hours ago
Sr. Software Engineer - Data, Popeyes
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is part of Restaurant Brands International Inc., one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data warehouse end-to-end, blending modern Lakehouse practices with classic Kimball dimensional modeling, while partnering closely with analytics and business stakeholders.
CateringFood and BeverageRestaurantsRetail
Responsibilities
Own the warehouse: set modeling standards, review PRs, manage environments, and drive a roadmap for conformed dimensions and high-quality facts
Model the business (Kimball-first): define grains, conformed dimensions, SCD1/2, surrogate keys, late-arriving/early-arriving data, bridge tables, and audit patterns
Build in dbt: develop models, snapshots, macros, seeds, tests (unique/not null/relationships/accepted values), tags, and exposures; maintain docs and lineage
Medallion + marts: structure bronze → silver → gold layers and publish well-governed marts for analytics and operational use
Orchestrate & harden pipelines: run dbt Core against Snowflake via CI/CD (CircleCI/GitHub Actions) and/or Airflow/Glue; use Snowflake Tasks (and Streams where appropriate) for scheduled runs and dependency management; keep SLAs/freshness green
Performance & cost: tune materializations (table/view/incremental/ephemeral), clustering/partitioning, MERGE strategies, and dependency graphs
Data quality & governance: enforce data contracts, freshness checks, observability/alerting, documentation, and access controls (PII handling)
Partner with the business: work with Analytics, Ops, Marketing, and Restaurant Tech to translate questions into durable dimensional models and standard metrics
Qualification
Required
6+ years in data engineering with a focus on dimensional modeling and production warehouses
Must-have: deep dbt expertise (models, snapshots, macros, tests, docs) and strong Kimball fundamentals (grain, conformed dimensions, SCD1/2, surrogate keys, slowly changing patterns, late/early data)
Advanced SQL and performance tuning in a cloud warehouse (Snowflake)
Experience owning a warehouse or major domain: SLAs, backlog, stakeholder comms, and incident prevention/response
Pipeline orchestration experience (dbt Cloud/Airflow/Prefect/Glue) and CI practices for data
A genuine passion for data with curiosity, product thinking, and pride in clean, well-modeled tables
Preferred
Python for data tooling
AWS Glue/Spark
streaming/CDC familiarity
metrics/semantic layers
Terraform (nice to have)
Great Expectations/Monte Carlo (nice)
Benefits
Comprehensive global paid parental leave program that supports employees as they expand their families
Free telemedicine and mental wellness support
Company
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
Developer, operator and franchisor of quick-service restaurants.
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2017-02-21Acquired
2014-01-21IPO
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