# Senior Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics
**Company:** [The Voleon Group](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/voleon)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $200K-$255K
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Airflow, Presto, Spark, Parquet, Orc, AWS, Data Modeling, Data Lineage, Metadata Management, Slurm
**Posted:** 2026-05-01
> Leads design and evolution of analytics infrastructure for research reporting, owning pipelines, datasets, and platform standardization. Collaborates with data scientists using Python, SQL, distributed engines like Presto/Spark. Requires 6+ years in data infrastructure.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Own implementation and on-going operation of recurring analytics pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs) including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements
- Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform, including schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows
- Drive cross-team technical alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs
- Build and maintain base analytics tables and metrics with strong schema discipline and reproducible computation
- Define and implement reliability standards (SLOs, observability patterns, runbooks) adopted across analytics pipelines
- Improve transparency and usability through documentation, discoverability, and clear data contracts
- Optimize distributed compute and SQL query performance; design data layouts (partitioning, file sizing) for columnar storage

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 6+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems
- Strong proficiency in **Python** and **SQL**
- Deep experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute systems
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale or mission-critical data infrastructure
- Strong data modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility considerations
- Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and applying robust data governance principles

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading architectural migrations or major refactors of data platforms
- Familiarity with **AWS** cloud technologies and on-prem compute clusters (e.g., **Slurm**, **SSH**, **Unix**)
- Exposure to quantitative research or machine learning environments
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