Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harnham is a global technology organisation that supports digital media and content businesses with advanced analytics and data-driven solutions. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the technical strategy for unifying data systems and developing AI-enabled data systems, while mentoring engineers and contributing to senior-level decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve cross-platform data architecture across multiple product lines
• Lead technical strategy to unify data systems and enable integrated product capabilities
• Drive the development of AI-enabled data systems, including LLM-backed features
• Design and scale data pipelines, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and machine learning teams
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across distributed teams
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies in AI and data engineering
• Contribute to roadmap planning and technical decision-making at a senior level

Skills

• Strong commercial experience in data engineering or data architecture within complex environments
• Expertise in Python and modern data engineering tooling
• Experience with Kafka and cloud data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake or similar
• Proven ability to design and scale large data platforms, including streaming and batch pipelines
• Hands-on experience building AI or LLM-powered products in production environments
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A track record of mentoring engineers and raising team capability
• Experience working across multiple systems or business units is highly valuable
• Exposure to technologies such as Spark, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, or Kubernetes is beneficial

Benefits

• Learning and development support, including technical training and conferences
• The opportunity to shape AI and data strategy in a globally recognised organisation

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