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Job description
Sigmoid unlocks business value for Fortune 1000 companies through expert data engineering, data science, and AI consulting. We solve complex challenges for leaders in CPG, Retail, BFSI, and Life Sciences. With 10+ delivery centers in the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Singapore, and India, we deliver cutting-edge data modernization and generative AI solutions. Join us to shape the future of data-driven innovation!
Why Sigmoid?
Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Companies (4 years running)
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (4 years running)
Top Employer: AIM’s 50 Best Firms for Data Scientists
Recently named British Data Awards Finalist & more accolades on the way!
Accelerate your career with a fast-growing, innovative company.
Engineering Leader / Solutions Architect - Boston
Role Overview
We are looking for a senior Engineering Leader / Solutions Architect to drive the design, modernization, and scale-out of enterprise data platforms within a cloud-native lakehouse ecosystem. The role requires deep expertise across modern data engineering, platform architecture, distributed processing, and large-scale delivery leadership.
The individual will work closely with business, product, analytics, and engineering stakeholders to define scalable platform architectures, establish engineering best practices, and lead globally distributed engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Strategy
Define and drive the roadmap for a unified cloud-native data platform spanning ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, observability, and secure data access.
Architect scalable lakehouse solutions leveraging Snowflake and/or Databricks ecosystems.
Design interoperable data platforms supporting batch, streaming, and real-time analytics workloads.
Build and optimize large-scale data platforms, including: Batch and streaming pipelines
Data observability frameworks
Security and governance controls
Design and optimize Apache Iceberg implementations including partitioning, compaction, metadata optimization, and multi-engine query performance.
Engineering Excellence & Governance
Establish engineering best practices across: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
Automated testing
Define data governance standards including schemas, SLAs, lineage, documentation, and access controls aligned with enterprise compliance requirements.
Delivery & Leadership
Provide hands‑on technical leadership across architecture, solutioning, troubleshooting, and engineering execution.
Partner with product, analytics, ML, and business stakeholders to build governed, scalable data products.
Manage delivery planning, partner coordination, capacity planning, milestone tracking, and operational excellence.
Platform Operations & Optimization
Own platform reliability, incident management, root‑cause analysis, and continuous operational improvements.
Drive performance and cost optimization initiatives across cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and compute workloads.
Experience
15+ years of experience across software engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering roles.
Proven experience transitioning from hands‑on engineering into large‑scale technical leadership and architecture roles.
Technical Skills -Strong hands‑on expertise in:
Snowflake and/or Databricks experience needed , who can develop Lakehouse platforms
Apache Iceberg experience mandatory
Data Platform & Governance
Strong understanding of: Catalog and lineage frameworks
Experience working with: Unity Catalog
Hive Meta store or equivalent metadata ecosystems
Domain Experience
Prior experience within Financial Services / Capital Markets environments preferred.
Familiarity with domains such as: Securities, Holdings, Benchmarking, Accounts, Products, Wealth & Asset Management platforms
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with experience collaborating across engineering, operations, and business teams globally.
Experience managing offshore‑heavy engineering delivery models and cross‑functional technical programs.
Comfortable operating as both a strategic technical leader and hands‑on problem solver where required.
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Worksite address
boston, MA, 02298, US
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