At ALSAC you do more than make a living; you make a difference.
We like people who are different…because we’re different, too. As one of the world’s most iconic and respected nonprofits, we know what it’s like to stand out. That’s why we’re looking at you. Your background, perspective, and desire to make an impact set you apart. As we work to help St. Jude cure childhood cancer, we're calling on the game-changers, innovators and visionaries to join our family. Not just for the kids of St. Jude, but also for you. Because at ALSAC, we develop and celebrate our employees. So, bring your whole, authentic self and become part of our shared mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®
Job Description
The Data Engineer III (Information Architecture) designs, builds, and maintains the data infrastructure that powers analytics, reporting, and decision‑making across the organization. This role owns end‑to‑end data pipelines—from ingestion through modeling and delivery—and partners closely with analytics, product, and business stakeholders.
You’ll have the opportunity to shape data platform standards, mentor other engineers, and deliver high‑impact solutions that directly support a mission‑driven organization. If you enjoy solving complex data problems at scale and want your work to make a meaningful difference, this role offers both technical challenge and purpose.
What You’ll Do
Core Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, optimized data pipelines that support business intelligence and analytics use cases.
- Partner with Enterprise, Solution, Technical Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to evolve data platform architecture.
- Perform conceptual and logical data modeling to assemble data sets of varying size and complexity.
- Develop and manage ETL/ELT processes using AWS and SQL-based technologies.
- Implement analytical solutions that generate actionable insights into operational efficiency, donor acquisition, and key business metrics.
- Collaborate with data, product, design, and executive stakeholders to support data needs and resolve technical issues.
- Serve as a technical lead for Data Engineer I and II teammates by coaching, mentoring, and reinforcing best practices.
- Conduct testing and root cause analysis to troubleshoot data quality, performance, and integration issues.
- Provide structured and ad‑hoc knowledge sharing and documentation across teams.
Data Platform & Governance Support
- Support data access configuration, integrations, and onboarding standards.
- Partner with governance and security teams to enable data cataloging, lineage, and discovery (e.g., Alation or similar tools).
- Assist with administration and configuration of data platform tools, including access management and integrations.
Technical Skills & Experience
Required Experience
- Strong proficiency in SQL for development and analysis.
- Hands‑on experience building and optimizing large‑scale data pipelines and architectures.
- Solid understanding of dimensional data modeling and data warehousing concepts.
- Experience sourcing and integrating complex data from multiple systems into a data lake or enterprise data platform.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including root cause analysis of data and processes.
- Ability to design processes supporting data transformation, orchestration, dependency management, and metadata.
Cloud, Tools & Technologies
- AWS data services including S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Redshift, RDS, EMR, EC2, and VPC configurations.
- API and integration experience using tools such as AWS Lambda, Mulesoft, SSIS, or Confluent.
- Workflow and orchestration tools such as Airflow, Luigi, or Azkaban.
- Stream processing and big data technologies including Kafka, Spark, Spark Streaming, and Kafka Streams.
- Relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices, including database source control and deployments (Liquibase, DB Up, SSDT).
- Programming experience in Python, Java, Scala, or C++.
Security & Observability
- Security‑minded approach with experience building compliance‑aware applications.
- Familiarity with data observability and metadata platforms supporting discovery, lineage, and stewardship.
- Experience partnering with security, platform, and governance teams to support standards and adoption.
Leadership Expectations
- Acts as a technical lead and mentor for junior engineers.
- Contributes to defining best practices, SOPs, and target‑state architecture.
- Influences data engineering standards across the organization.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field plus 5–8 years of relevant experience.
- Master’s degree preferred, especially with experience partnering directly with executive and cross‑functional stakeholders.
Benefits & Perks
The following Benefits & Perks apply to Full-Time Roles Only.
We’re dedicated to ensuring children and their families have every opportunity to enjoy life’s special moments. We’re also committed to giving our staff excellent benefits so they can do the same.
- Core Medical Coverage: (low cost low deductible Medical, Dental, and Vison Insurance plans)
- 401K Retirement Plan with 7% Employer Contribution
- Exceptional Paid Time Off
- Maternity / Paternity Leave
- Infertility Treatment Program
- Adoption Assistance
- Education Assistance
- Enterprise Learning and Development
- And more
ALSAC is an equal employment opportunity employer.
ALSAC does not discriminate against any individual with regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or other protected status.
No Search Firms:
ALSAC does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All resumes submitted by search firms to any ALSAC employee or ALSAC representative via email, the internet or in any form and/or method without being contacted and approved by our Employee Experience team and without a valid written search agreement in place will result in no fee being paid if a referred candidate is hired by ALSAC.
