Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help define and scale the foundation of SiFi s data platform.
You will be part of the Data & AI team and serve as a key partner to Finance, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance. Your primary responsibility will be to design and own our data platform, modeling standards, and AI-ready infrastructure, ensuring that metrics are accurate, scalable, and trusted across the organization.
This is a high-ownership role focused on building financial data infrastructure from first principles.
What You Will Own
Data Modeling and Standards
- Define and maintain scalable data models in SQL
- Establish structured warehouse layers and modeling best practices
- Own KPI definitions and ensure a single source of truth
- Ensure financial correctness and metric consistency
Warehouse Architecture
- Design and evolve our cloud data warehouse in BigQuery
- Own transformation workflows using dbt, SQLMesh, or similar tools
- Optimize performance, reliability, and cost
- Design and support production-grade AI/ML pipelines ensuring model performance, data integrity, and compliance.
Reliability and Governance
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and observability
- Implement access controls aligned with compliance requirements
- Build a scalable foundation ready for advanced analy tics and AI
Cross-Functional Impact
- Translate business requirements into robust data systems
- Enable trusted reporting and BI across teams
- Support experimentation and AI-driven initiatives with well-structured datasets
Desired Candidate Profile
What We Are Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering
- Strong SQL expertise with hands-on data modeling experience
- Experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery
- Experience with modern transformation frameworks such as dbt or SQLMesh
- Experience building or supporting production-grade AI/ML pipelines is a strong plus
- Ability to operate independently in a fast-moving startup
- Operates with high agency, taking end-to-end ownership of complex problems and delivering outcomes