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# Senior Data Engineer at Velir 

- **Company:** Velir 
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/velir/jobs/5434538008

## Job description

Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a top-tier portfolio of clients, ranging from the world’s largest non-profits to Fortune 500 brands. As of 2023, Velir acquired Brooklyn Data Company, a premier data and analytics consultancy focused on leadership, process improvement, implementation, and advanced analytics.

At Velir, we believe people are our greatest asset. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, collaboration, and continued improvement. We strive for excellence in everything we do, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. Our success is driven by a shared passion for making a positive impact on our customers, our communities and each other. We are a remote first company that offers competitive pay and excellent benefits.

## Overview

Senior Data Engineers play a crucial role in helping our client organizations manage and leverage their data effectively. Their responsibilities include Data Architecture Design; Data Warehousing; Data Quality Assurance; Scalability and Performance Optimization; and Data Security. As senior-level individual contributors, SDEs are also responsible for recommending and implementing data engineering tools and technologies that best suit the client’s needs. Because our clients are mostly US-based organizations, we look for the ability to communicate with professional proficiency in English, verbally and in writing.

## Responsibilities

- Data Engineering Leadership: You are responsible for bridging technical gaps to lead and oversee various data engineering projects for our data solutions engagements. You possess advanced data engineering knowledge and expertise, and your assignments, projects, and programs are of significant scope and/or complexity where effective decision-making requires navigating ambiguous or uncertain conditions.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: You are responsible for contributing to alignment across the organization through influence and by translating context across different teams. You have a strong, foundational understanding of other Data Team functions, while also being able to translate these concepts for less technical colleagues.
- Project Enablement: You are responsible for ensuring that large and/or more complex engineering projects are delivered in alignment with the appropriate business outcomes. As a senior+ member of the Data Engineering function, you serve as a mentor to data solutions team members, data engineering managers, and other data engineers, and may be embedded on a client team to unblock and upskill them.

Tools & Technologies

- Programming languages (e.g. SQL, Python)
- Data Processing (e.g. Apache Spark, dbt)
- Cloud-based data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery)
- Data orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Prefect)

Technical Skills

- Data Movement. Optimizes data pipelines to achieve low latency, ensuring timely processing and delivery of data. Can design and implement real-time and /or micro-batch data processing solutions that handle high-volume data with low latency requirements.
- Data Warehousing. Acts as an internal resource for data warehousing, providing help with advanced techniques and strategies for novel scenarios.
- Programming. Has an authoritative or deep holistic understanding, deals with routine matters intuitively, able to go beyond existing interpretations, achieves excellence with ease.
- Technical Management: Is able to be a technical leader across a set of related team's domains, consistently pushing boundaries and exploring gaps in understanding.
- Data Infrastructure: You can design, build, and maintain the underlying data infrastructure for a complex, large-scale system that integrates with multiple disparate data sources.

Bonus points for:

- Data Modeling and Transformation: Comfortable with modeling and transforming extremely large and complex datasets in a performant and cost-efficient manner.
- MLOps: Understands and can execute the steps required to deploy a trained model into a production environment for offline or online scoring.

## Skills & Qualifications

- Proven experience as a Data Engineer or related role, with a focus on designing and developing data pipelines.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL. Experience with Scala and Rust is a plus but not required.
- Deep knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/ELT processes.
- Intermediate / expert proficiency with common data integration / orchestration platforms (e.g., Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow)
- Deep experience with at least one cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar).
- Experience with streaming solutions such as Spark Streaming, Kafka, or Flink is desirable but not required.
- Strong experience with at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with machine learning operations (MLOps) techniques and platforms is a plus but not required.
- Experience mentoring and advising other engineers
- Ability to define, explain, and sell long-term vision for technical architecture, technical approaches / procedures, etc.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Physical Requirements

- Frequent sitting at a desk performing work on a computer
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Compensation Range: $145,000 - 160,000  annually

Please note that compensation packages are finalized after the interview process is concluded. We use a competency-based approach to base pay, which means it is based on the competencies and skills demonstrated for this role.

Core Company Values

- Take the Long View - Ensure the company is built to last
- Be Courageous - Make the right decisions even when they aren't the easiest decisions
- Be Genuine - Bring honesty and authenticity to all that you do
- Work with Focus + Passion - Display purpose and pride in your work and never stop learning

As an equal opportunity employer, we are firmly committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring efforts. We recognize that we need team members from all backgrounds and experiences to successfully shape a positive employee experience as well as deliver our product and service solutions. To that end, we actively seek candidates who can bring diverse experiences and backgrounds to our team. We know that complex factors and systemic bias can get in the way of us meeting strong candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply even if you're not 100% sure.

At this time, Velir does not sponsor candidates and unfortunately cannot accept those on OPT or CPT.

## About Velir 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Velir is a data-driven digital experience agency that unites strategy, creativity, and data to help organizations build personalized, high-impact digital experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (A Mighty Union Company)
- **Headquarters**: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Digital marketing, customer experience (CX), data and analytics consulting.
- **Target Customers**: B2B enterprises, non‑profit organizations, and mid‑market brands; clients include the Annie E. Casey Foundation and other large organizations.
- **Mission Statement**: “Deliver exceptional outcomes through durable, long‑lasting relationships.”

## Products & Services
Velir is a services‑led agency and does not sell named software products, but its offerings are organized around three integrated practice areas:

- **[Digital Experience (DXP)](https://www.velir.com/)**: Strategy, design, and development of digital experience platforms (e.g., Sitecore) to create engaging, personalized user journeys.
- **[Data Studio (formerly Brooklyn Data)](https://www.velir.com/who-we-are)**: Data strategy, cloud data stack architecture, analytics, and governance – helping clients unify data to drive decision‑making and personalization.
- **[Marketing & CX Strategy](https://www.velir.com/)**: Data‑backed marketing strategies, conversion optimization, and ongoing support to maximize ROI.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $26.5M (per LinkedIn) ; headcount of 124 employees
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Parent company **Mighty Union**; acquired **Brooklyn Data Co.** in 2023
- **Growth Signals**: Distributed workforce across 30+ U.S. states, Canada, the UK, and El Salvador; active hiring in Data & AI roles; headcount remained stable (‑0.6% YoY) with strong LinkedIn follower growth of +18.4% year‑over‑year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Fusion of digital experience and data** – one of the few agencies offering both deep DXP expertise and a dedicated data studio (Brooklyn Data).
- **Long‑tenured client relationships** – first client (Annie E. Casey Foundation) has been a partner for over 20 years.
- **Culture of inclusion and flexibility** – high employee retention (average tenure of 4+ years) with robust remote‑first policies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Data‑led growth** – expanding the Data Studio to integrate data into every client engagement, from marketing strategy to technical infrastructure.
- **AI & automation** – investing in AI/ML capabilities (e.g., hiring Director of Data & AI Alliances and Senior AI/ML Engineer) to enhance personalization and operational efficiency.
- **Unified “Better Together” approach** – deepening the integration of creative, technical, and data teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote‑first culture** – most positions are fully remote; employees are located across the U.S., Canada, UK, and El Salvador.
- **Generous benefits** – 16 weeks paid parental leave (including 6 weeks for non‑childbearing parents), 4% 401k match, fully paid short‑ and long‑term disability, three medical plan choices, dental/vision/pet insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a free Headspace subscription.
- **Work‑life balance** – paid time off, sick leave, paid holidays, one paid volunteer day, and Summer Fridays (half‑day Fridays during summer).
- **Inclusive environment** – active Business Resource Groups (BRGs), regular IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) training, and a commitment to psychological safety.
- **Recognition & tenure** – VelYear awards (peer‑nominated bonuses), milestone tenure awards (custom “thinking eggs” and cash bonuses at 3, 5, 10, and 20 years), and annual salary reviews.

## Sources
1. [velir.com](https://www.velir.com/) – Company overview, services, and mission.
2. [Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/velir) – Current job openings and applicant accommodations.
3. [Careers page](https://www.velir.com/who-we-are/careers) – Employee benefits, culture, and IDEA commitment.
4. [About page](https://www.velir.com/who-we-are) – History, acquisition of Brooklyn Data, and team distribution.
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/velir) – Revenue, headcount, growth trends, and executive team.

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