The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) · 10 hours ago
Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expThe National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) is the largest accredited leadership honor society in the United States, with over 800 chapters and more than 2 million members. The Data Engineer will lead the transformation of analytics infrastructure, migrating from legacy systems to a modern data stack while building maintainable data pipelines and ensuring data quality for business stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
In Your First 6 Months Contribute to the Snowflake migration: Work with the broader data team to deprecate our legacy Redshift and Apache Hop infrastructure by completing the migration to Snowflake and dbt Cloud
Build production-grade dbt pipelines: Develop and maintain SQL transformations in dbt that power analytics for business stakeholders across the organization
Establish data architecture: Refine and maintain our medallion architecture (bronze, silver, and gold layers) to create clear separation of concerns and a single source of truth
Collaborate with the data team: Partner with our AWS Engineer, Analytics Engineer, and Business Analyst in a sprint-based workflow with code reviews and regular standups
Ongoing Responsibilities Maintain dbt transformations (60-70% of role): Own approximately 15-20 core models and summary views that drive business reporting, ensuring they're performant, well-documented, and easy to maintain
Build new data pipelines: Ingest data from APIs and new sources as business needs evolve
Enable reverse ETL: Develop and manage batch processes to send transformed data to downstream services like HubSpot using tools like Hightouch
Monitor data quality: Implement testing and alerting to catch issues before they impact stakeholders
Contribute to technical standards: Help establish and maintain best practices for code quality, documentation, and data modeling
Qualification
Required
2-5 years of experience as a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, or similar role
Expert SQL skills: You write advanced, readable SQL including CTEs, window functions, and query optimization techniques
dbt proficiency: You've built and maintained production dbt projects and understand modeling best practices (this is critical for the role)
Python fundamentals: Comfortable working with dataframes, querying APIs, and writing scripts for data processing
Modern data stack familiarity: Experience with Snowflake, AWS, and orchestration tools like dbt Cloud or Airflow
Code craftsmanship: You write clean, modular, well-documented code that others can easily understand and maintain
AI-assisted development: Proficient with AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate development, debug efficiently, and learn new technologies quickly
Preferred
Experience with reverse ETL tools (Hightouch, Census, etc.)
Familiarity with Fivetran or similar ingestion platforms
Background in batch processing and API integrations
Experience with Hex, PostHog, or similar analytics/CDP tools
Benefits
Work-life balance: Standard business hours (9-5 or similar), no on-call or off-hours expectations
Weekly 1:1s: Regular check-ins with the Head of Data for feedback, support, and career growth
Collaborative code review: Your work will be reviewed by senior engineers on the team to ensure quality and knowledge sharing
AI-assisted development: We actively encourage the use of AI coding assistants like Claude Code to write better code faster, accelerate onboarding to new codebases, and increase overall engineering velocity
Company
The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS)
The National Society of Leadership & Success is the nation’s largest leadership honor society with over one million members & 700+ chapters.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Neil Khaund
President & CEO
Tierney Wade
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
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