Staff Data Engineer

Staff Data Engineer

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About the role

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Fora is in the process of modernizing its data stack to build the foundation for agentic products and analytics. To lead this effort, we are hiring a Staff Data Engineer to build and own the platform backbone for governed reporting and trusted AI workflows.

This is a hands-on Staff IC role on a small Data & AI team. You will make strategic architecture calls—from ingestion patterns and Snowflake design to data contracts and SLAs—and then get into the weeds to build, harden, or rebuild pipelines.

We are looking for a systems thinker who understands business impact and operational burden, and who can partner closely with Analytics, Engineering, and vendors to turn fragmented source systems into trustworthy data products.

What you will own

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### Architecture & Strategy

• Data platform architecture: ingestion patterns, warehouse design, environment strategy, orchestration, access governance, and reliability standards.
• Freshness & ingestion strategy: Deciding when to use streaming versus batch based on business value, cost, and operational burden.
• Cross-functional partnership: Partnering with Platform Engineering to ensure our data infrastructure integrates securely and reliably with core operational systems.

### Execution & Reliability

• Data Integrations: requirements source profiling ingestion design QA documentation support.
• Pipeline reliability: dependencies, retries, alerts, backfills, incident response, runbooks, monitoring, and support expectations.
• Legacy migration: helping retire brittle reporting paths such as Azure Data Factory, SQL backup workflows, and other duplicate pipelines.

### Governance & Quality

• Snowflake governance: roles, permissions, service accounts, connector ownership, environment separation, performance, cost, and governance.
• Data contracts: sche...