Senior Data Engineer

Overview

Location: Remote, Hybrid to Naperville, IL

As a Senior Data Engineer at Frontline Education, you’ll help power smarter decision-making for the educators and organizations we serve. You’ll design and evolve data systems that transform complex information into meaningful insights — helping teams act with clarity, confidence, and speed. You’ll help shape the data engineering infrastructure that supports data acquisition, transformation, and delivery across multiple analytical products, ensuring high-quality data flows reliably across our platforms.

In a fast-moving, collaborative environment, you’ll partner across product, engineering, and analytics to bring data solutions from concept through deployment, always focusing on performance, integrity, and long-term impact.

• Design, build, and evolve scalable data pipelines and architectures that support both structured and unstructured data at scale.
• Develop and optimize modern ETL/ELT workflows and orchestration processes to ensure efficient, reliable data movement.
• Implement complex data transformations that enable advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and reporting.
• Sustain data quality, governance, security, and platform reliability through thoughtful engineering practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve performance across data systems and infrastructure.
• Automate repetitive workflows to increase efficiency and reduce operational friction.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that shape cloud-native and modern data warehouse environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data-driven capabilities into products and internal tools.
• Document processes, data definitions, and workflows to support shared understanding and long-term scalability.
• Offer technical mentorship through peer collaboration, knowledge sharing, and code reviews.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve code quality, accelerate delivery, and enhance innovation.

• Experience designing and supporting large-scale data systems and pipelines in production environments.
• Strong expertise in SQL and data modeling across analytical and transactional workloads.
• Proficiency in Python for building, automating, and optimizing data workflows.
• Experience with relational and columnar databases such as MS SQL or Postgre
  
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• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration and transformation tools such as Airflow or dbt.
• Experience with modern cloud-based data warehouse platforms such as Snowflake or Redshift.
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems — preferably AWS — including storage, compute, and data services.
• Exposure to containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD practices that support reliable deployments.
• A thoughtful approach to using AI-powered development tools to enhance efficiency and quality.

Equivalent combinations of education and experience are welcomed.

• A systems-oriented mindset with the ability to see how data flows across platforms and teams.
• Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset, especially as technologies and tools evolve.
• Comfort navigating complexity and solving ambiguous, large-scale technical challenges.
• Clear communication skills that help translate technical concepts into shared understanding.
• A collaborative approach that values feedback, shared ownership, and collective success.
• A commitment to building secure, ethical, and dependable data solutions that people can trust.

At Frontline Education, we’re reimagining what’s possible by becoming an AI-first organization, transforming how we think, work, and serve the educators who shape our schools every day. By using AI in thoughtful, practical ways, we’re creating tools that help educators save time, gain insights, and focus more on what matters most — their students. You’ll be expected and empowered to build and apply AI skillsets that grow with you, because technology amplifies what matters most: the human drive to learn, improve, and make a difference.

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