Senior Data Engineer

<h1><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Join one of Baltimore's Best Places to Work!</strong></span></h1> <div class="job__description body"> <p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>The Banner is seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Data Engineer to help scale and mature our modern cloud-based data platform as we expand operations through the acquisition and integration of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This is a high-impact role focused on building scalable data pipelines, establishing strong data governance and engineering practices, and enabling trusted analytics across editorial, subscriptions, audience engagement, advertising, philanthropy, finance, and operations.</p> <p>You will play a critical role in consolidating fragmented reporting systems into a centralized, cloud-native data ecosystem. Your work will help leaders and teams make faster, more informed decisions through reliable, accessible, and well-governed data.</p> <p>The ideal candidate is both a strong technical engineer and a pragmatic systems thinker. You are comfortable working across business and technical teams, designing sustainable data foundations, and solving complex problems in a fast-moving digital media environment.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong><strong>Data Platform and Pipeline Engineering</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines on AWS.</li> <li>Develop robust ETL and ELT workflows that integrate data from multiple operational systems.</li> <li>Expand and evolve our existing AWS-based data lake architecture to support multi-organization analytics and reporting.</li> <li>Standardize ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers across acquired systems and platforms.</li> <li>Contribute to architecture decisions and long-term data platform strategy.</li> <li>Build reliable, reusable, and well-documented data assets that support analytics, reporting, and operational decision-making.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Acquisition and Systems Integration</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead data integration work related to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette systems and reporting infrastructure.</li> <li>Centralize fragmented reporting pipelines and migrate ad hoc reporting processes into governed, enterprise-grade workflows.</li> <li>Create scalable mechanisms for aligning KPIs, metrics, definitions, and operational reporting across organizations.</li> <li>Partner with technical and business teams to understand source systems, reporting needs, and integration priorities.</li> <li>Help establish a durable data foundation that suppo