Data Engineer III

About the role

Iridium is seeking a Data Engineer III to join our Enterprise Data team. This role is ideal for someone with 5+ years of experience in data engineering, cloud-based data platforms, and enterprise data modernization.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and optimization of scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines and ETL processes
• Build and enhance data ingestion frameworks using AWS services like Glue and DataSync, along with platforms including Snowflake and DBT
• Support the implementation of strategies for ingesting structured and unstructured data from databases, APIs, and streaming sources, ensuring data quality, accuracy, and security
• Develop and maintain data models to support analytics, reporting, and cross-functional business needs
• Ensure adherence to data governance, compliance requirements, and security best practices
• Maintain and optimize the health and performance of the data infrastructure to proactively identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies
• Work with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions
• Support the onboarding and integration of QoS data initiatives, enabling more real-time operational visibility

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of relevant experience in data engineering
• Strong proficiency in Snowflake, DBT, SQL, Python, and modern ETL/ELT frameworks
• Experience with data pipeline design, data modeling, streaming and batch ingestion technologies such as Kafka and NiFi/ Openflow
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and data quality, governance, and performance-tuning practices
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures
• Telcom or satellite industry experience is a plus
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to set personal priorities and assist others in executing assigned tasks, with guidance; proactively communicates bandwidth issues to manager
• Good communication skills, with the ability to comfortably present products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups within your team
• Demonstrates active listening and asks substantive, thought-provoking questions
• Possesses an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand key outputs of data analysis, make routine decisions using data, and recognize and propose solutions to issues
• Proactive in providing formal and informal feedback to peers and managers
• Facilitates teamwork, positively impacts team/peer group, and demonstrates ownership of assigned tasks and activities

Qualifications

• Experience with data orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, or data quality frameworks
• AWS certifications or Snowflake certifications are a plus