Senior Data Engineer - Forward deployed

Andela

3d • Remote

About The Position

Andela is transitioning from a world-class talent marketplace into a high-scale, AI-integrated Talent Cloud. In this Senior Data Engineer role, you will be forward deployed with an enterprise-scale organization in the automotive industry undergoing a significant transformation in how it leverages data and analytics to drive commercial and operational decisions. They are investing in modern data infrastructure, advanced analytics, and AI/ML capabilities to improve performance across key business areas. The environment emphasizes strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights. This role requires someone who enjoys working with customers, thinks about data as a product, ensures data is reliable, accessible, and structured to enable self-service analytics across the organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years in data engineering on cloud platforms
• Snowflake — data modelling, query optimisation, staging environments
• Python — pandas, PySpark, data pipeline scripting
• Experience building feature stores for ML consumption
• Strong understanding of schema design and dimensional modelling

Nice To Haves

• Experience in automotive, retail, or dealer network data
• Familiarity with CRM data structures (for Aftermarket hire)
• Azure — Data Factory, Blob Storage, or Synapse
• Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tooling
• Azure DevOps for pipeline CI/CD

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Snowflake data pipelines for Dealer 360 and Aftermarket workstreams respectively
• Design and implement the dealer and aftermarket feature stores (Layer 1–2)
• Build ingestion pipelines for all external data sources (JD Power, PIN, S&P, Vehicle Registration, competitive scraping + 2 TBC)
• Write and maintain dbt models for data transformation, cleaning, and normalisation
• Enforce schema validation, data quality checks, and freshness SLAs across all feeds
• Collaborate with the Data Architect to implement the unified data model
• Produce documented data lineage for every pipeline before any model is trained against it

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed