Senior Data Engineer People Technology

Senior Data Engineer - People Technology At SolarWinds, we're a peoplefirstpany. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, holders, partners, andmunities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions. The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fastpaced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We're looking for individuals who believe they can aplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude,petency, andmitment. Solarians are ready to advance our worldclass solutions in a fastpaced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you're looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you'vee to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us We are building our People Analytics platform from scratch on a modern data stack (GCPBigQuery, CData, dbt). We are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to lead the architecture, implementation, and ongoing evolution of our new People Analytics data platform. This is a foundational, "greenfield" role you will be responsible for defining the blue of how we ingest, store, and transform HR data from systems like SuccessFactors and Greenhouse into meaningful insights. You are not just building pipelines; you are architecting a highperformance AIready data product that will enable our People team to make datadriven decisions on a scale. What You Will Do

• Infrastructure & GCP Architecture Provision and manage our GCP environment (BigQuery) using InfrastructureasCode (Terraform). You will define the project structure and governance.
• Modern Data Stack Ownership Own the full pipeline—configure CData to sync HRISATS systems into BigQuery, and use dbt to build a clean, modular transformation layer (Staging, Intermediate, and Marts).
• AI Readiness Collaborate on the data strategy to ensure that all data is clean, versioned, and documented creating a "feature store" ready for future BigQuery ML predictive modeling.
• Governance & Security Implement strict IAM policies, data masking, and access controls to ensure sensitive HRPII data is protected.
• Tableau Enablement Build performant data marts specifically optimized for Tableau to ensure fast load times for the dashboard team. Experience
• -+ Years of Experience Proven professional experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or a highly technical Data Analyst role.
• "Greenfield" Build Track Record You have successfully led or been a core contributor to building a data platform from scratch. You understand how to make architectural tradeoffs that favor longterm scalability over "quick fixes."
• Engineering Discipline + years of handson experience with version control (GitGitHub) and establishing CICD pipelines. You treat data transformation as software engineering. Technical Stack Mastery
• SQL Expertlevel proficiency;fortable withplex window functions and performance optimization.
• dbt Strong, demonstrated experience building and testing dbt projects (Jinja, macros, modular modeling).
• GCPBigQuery Handson experience managing BigQuery project structure, dataset governance, partitioningclustering, and IAMsecurity policies. Domain Fluency Ability to translateplex HR business requirements (e.g., Attrition, Headcount, Diversity, TimetoFill) into reusable dimensional data models. Why Join Us?
• Full Architectural Autonomy You are the "architect" of our data platform. You will make the foundational decisions on schema design, security, and tooling, avoiding the constraints of legacy environments.
• Modern "GoldStandard" Stack Work with a premium, futureproof stack (GCP, BigQuery, CData, dbt) that is highly sought after by toptier data engineers.
• HighImpact Strategic Role You will be at the intersection of Data and HR, building the platform that helps our leadership understand our most important asset our people. Your work directly influences how we hire, retain, and develop talent.
• AIML Path We aren't just building dashboards; we are building an AIready foundation. You will play a pivotal role in transitioning our platform from descriptive reporting to predictive modeling, setting a high bar for our technical evolution.
• Culture of Excellence We value clean code, automated testing, and rigorous documentation.

You will work in an environment w technical debt is avoided, not accepted. SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds