CD&A Data Engineer
About The Position
The Global Technology – Data & Analytics team builds and operates the data platforms that power Viasat's business decisions. We're in the middle of a meaningful shift — migrating from an Azure/SAP-centric stack to a modern GCP foundation built on BigQuery, Airbyte, DBT, Prefect, and Looker — and we need someone who wants to build, not just maintain. You'll work directly alongside our Platform Lead and a distributed team across the US, UK, and India to deliver reliable, observable, and governed data capabilities. Your work will directly power enterprise data products in Time/Labor, Procurement, HR, and executive visibility dashboards. You'll also have early exposure to our Agentic AI development initiative. If you're the kind of person who gets curious about why a pipeline broke at 2am and wants to fix it properly — this is your team. This is a site‑based role, employees work 3+ days (60%+) per week from a Viasat office or work location within a standard five‑day workweek.
Requirements
- Solid SQL and Python skills — comfortable writing queries, scripts, and debugging data issues
- Understanding of ELT/ETL pipeline concepts and how data moves through cloud environments
- Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform (GCP or Azure — we'll teach the other)
- Comfort with Git-based workflows: branching, pull requests, code review
- Organized, thorough documentation habits — you'll produce records others rely on
- Able to work independently across time zones and surface decisions quickly
- Must be a US Citizen
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with DBT, Airbyte, Prefect, BigQuery, or Looker
- Exposure to SRE concepts: SLOs, alerting, MTTR, incident triage
- Familiarity with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code patterns
- Experience with BI platforms (Looker, Power BI, SAC, OBIEE) — even at admin/support level
- Basic scripting in Bash or PowerShell for operational tasks
- Curiosity about AI-assisted workflows and automation — we're building there now
- Experience or comfort working with global distributed teams
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines using Airbyte and DBT on GCP/BigQuery
- Orchestrate and monitor workflows in Prefect
- Support BigQuery dataset management, optimization, and access governance
- Participate in the migration of legacy Azure pipelines to GCP — running both stacks in parallel during transition
- Monitor pipeline health using Grafana, Azure Monitor, and GCP observability tools
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform; maintain YAML configs and GitHub/Azure DevOps pull request workflows
- Coordinate daily with offshore and contractor teams on escalations, handoffs, and delivery
- Maintain runbooks, operational logs, and documentation with consistency and care
Benefits
- range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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