Purpose in Every Position.
At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.
Where Your Work Moves the Needle.
At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.
✔️Doing the Right Thing
Making authentic, values-driven decisions that build trust—even when no one is watching.
✔️Winning as a Team
Collaborating across diverse perspectives and skill sets to achieve shared goals and celebrate collective success.
✔️Leading with Curiosity
Asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and exploring new possibilities to drive innovation.
✔️Connecting with Empathy
Valuing each person’s unique background and perspective to build an inclusive culture that fosters belonging and creativity.
✔️Driving for Impact
Staying tenacious, customer-focused, and committed to delivering results that make a real difference.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
Velocity Global offers the most unified, tech-enabled, and customer service-driven global workforce management, ensuring smooth, reliable operations across countries, roles, and workforce types so businesses can navigate complexity with confidence, deliver strong results, and stay ahead. We help you expand your business into new markets without the complexity of setting up entities. We hire, pay, and manage your workforce across 185+ countries with our AI-powered global Workforce Technology platform.
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Staff Data Engineer (Data Architect) to lead the architecture, design, and scalability of our data platform. This role will drive the strategic direction of our data ecosystem, ensuring best practices in data modeling, governance, and security while leveraging modern data technologies.
This role requires in office presence in our Palo Alto office.
How You'll Make an Impact:
- Architect our data platform for scalable, analytics and operational workflows.
- Create efficiency by optimizing pipelines, cost management, and reducing data redundancy.
- Develop best practices in dbt, data modeling, data architecture and ELT/ETL pipelines.
- Orchestrate workflows with Apache Airflow and drive efficient data transformations.
- Architect event-driven data solutions for real-time and batch processing, ensuring robust, scalable systems.
- Collaborate to align data architecture with business goals and analytical needs.
- Ensure data governance and compliance for PII and sensitive data in cloud environments.
- Leverage AWS services (e.g., SNS, SQS, S3, Lambda, Glue) to manage infrastructure and ensure secure operations.
- Coach and mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and best practices on SQL, Python, and scalable data practices while driving continuous improvements.
- Drive and shape the strategic vision for the organization's data architecture and data flow , ensuring scalability, innovation, and alignment with business goals.
Let's Connect If You:
- 8+ years of data engineering and architecture experience, with expertise in Snowflake and AWS services.
- 3+ years of experience with dbt and data modeling for scalable solutions.
- Advanced SQL and Python skills for query optimization and data processing.
- Strong knowledge of data governance, security, and PII handling.
- Hands-on experience with the modern data stack (Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, Looker, Atlan, and Monte Carlo).
- Proven experience in event-driven architectures and tools.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and scale data architecture initiatives across large, complex systems.
- Familiarity with data security best practices and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA).
- Works collaboratively, partnering with engineering, leadership, analytics, and business teams to design scalable, high-impact data solutions aligned with company objectives.
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.
Annualized Pay Range
$225,000—$300,000 USD
Our Commitment to You
At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:
- Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
- Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
- Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
- Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.
Please visit our career page for more information.
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