Vice President, Data Engineering
HarbourVest Partners · Boston, MA · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineering$245k–$275k/yrFull-time
What You Will Do
- Own and evolve a production-grade, cloud-based data platform supporting deal sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring, reporting, and analytics.
- Lead architecture and design decisions across modern data stacks, including Snowflake, DBT, orchestration tools, Azure, and related cloud-native capabilities.
- Ensure data engineering capabilities are tightly integrated with application data needs, including trusted data supply, clear data contracts, reliable pipelines, and production-ready consumption patterns.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, lineage, observability, SLAs, scalability, reliability, and performance across critical datasets and pipelines.
- Build, lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing data engineering organization with strong ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Drive multi-functional delivery with investment, finance, and operational partners, translating business needs into trusted, usable data products.
What You Bring
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating modern, cloud data platforms at scale, including batch and near real-time data processing.
- Strong proficiency with SQL, Python, Snowflake or equivalent cloud warehouses, DBT, pipeline orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow, and Azure data tooling.
- Expertise in data modeling, ETL/ELT frameworks, data quality, testing, observability, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Proven track record leading data engineering teams, mentoring senior engineers, and delivering data-centric platforms end-to-end in production.
Pay
Base Salary Range: $245,000.00 - $275,000.00
This USD base salary range represents only one component of total compensation for this role and is provided in accordance with local requirements. This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance. In addition to salary and bonus, total compensation may include eligibility for long-term reward programs and a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement, health, insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs.