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DAFgiving360™ is an independent nonprofit organization created to increase charitable giving in the U.S. We offer a donor-advised fund program and related philanthropic tools and guidance that empower donors to incorporate charitable planning into their everyday lives and make a bigger difference in the world. Since our founding in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) public charity, DAFgiving360 donors have recommended over $50 billion in grants to more than 295,000 charities. DAFgiving360 has entered into a services agreement with Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. for administrative and other services, including human resources. This position will be an employee of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and will be subject to its policies and procedures but will report to and be accountable to DAFgiving360 for day-to-day activities.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s): Westlake or Austin, TX

The Senior Data Engineer is a senior technical contributor within DAFgiving360’s Data organization responsible for designing, building, operating, and evolving DAFgiving360’s modern data platform and engineering capabilities. This role serves as a key engineering owner of GIFT (Giving Insights, Foundational Trust), helping ensure that enterprise data is reliable, scalable, secure, and accessible to support analytics, operational decision-making, automation, and future AI initiatives.

Working closely with Analytics, Data Governance, Technology, Product, and business stakeholders, this individual will lead hands‑on engineering efforts spanning data ingestion, integration, transformation, quality, monitoring, and platform operations. The role balances technical execution with strategic platform planning and helps advance DAFgiving360’s Foundation360 strategy by reducing data complexity, improving data accessibility, increasing platform reliability, and establishing the trusted data foundation required for future AI and automation capabilities.

You are a hands‑on builder who can move between implementation details and platform‑level thinking. You are energized by improving reliability, simplifying complexity, and partnering across teams to deliver data products people trust and use.

• Build and maintain scalable ingestion, transformation, and integration pipelines.


• Develop reusable data products and shared engineering patterns.


• Improve platform reliability, performance, and maintainability through monitoring, alerting, and operational improvements.


• Support production operations, release activities, and business continuity planning as part of a shared team model.

• Partner with architects and engineers to implement modern data architecture and engineering standards.


• Onboard new data sources across raw, staging, and analytics‑ready layers.


• Simplify legacy data structures, reduce duplicated logic, and align models to business concepts.

• Implement data quality checks, automated testing, and observability practices.


• Partner with Data Governance on metadata, lineage, glossary, and stewardship standards.


• Ensure data solutions align with security, privacy, retention, and compliance requirements.


• Help identify and prevent recurring data defects across critical assets.

• Translate business and analytics needs into robust technical solutions.


• Recommend improvements that reduce manual effort and improve data accessibility.


• Contribute to technical standards, documentation, and engineering best practices.


• Communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical partners and influence direction through strong collaboration.

• Build foundational data assets that support advanced analytics, automation, machine learning, and future AI use cases.


• Improve consistency, usability, trust, and performance of data products that enable faster and more reliable decision‑making.


• Contribute to the long‑term evolution of DAFgiving360’s data infrastructure so it can scale with digital, analytics, operational, and AI‑enabled capabilities.

• BigQuery (Advanced): Data modeling, performance tuning, large‑scale ELT, and analytics‑ready datasets.


• SQL (Advanced): Complex transformations, optimization, reconciliation logic, and durable semantic layers.


• Python (Advanced): Pipeline development, data processing, validation frameworks, and reusable engineering utilities.


• Google Cloud Platform (Advanced): BigQuery, GCS, IAM‑aware data workflows, and cloud‑native batch architecture.


• Oracle (Proficient): Source‑system extraction patterns, schema interpretation, and high‑volume batch ingestion.


• ETL/ELT Orchestration (Advanced): Incremental/full-load design, dependency management, scheduling, and failure recovery.


• Data Quality and Observability (Proficient): Validation checks, anomaly detection, monitoring, and incident triage.


• Git and CI/CD (Proficient): Version‑controlled delivery, automated testing integration, and reliable release workflows.


• PowerShell (Proficient): Job automation, operational scripting, and environment/bootstrap support.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis without employer sponsorship.


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Analytics, or related field, or equivalent experience.


• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, software engineering, or related technical disciplines.


• Advanced SQL and data modeling expertise, with experience designing durable, business‑aligned data structures.


• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration workflows, and data integration processes.


• Experience with cloud data platforms and modern warehouse/lake/lakehouse environments.


• Experience with medallion/lakehouse patterns and governed self‑service analytics.


• Experience supporting production systems, including monitoring, incident response, and operational reliability.


• Working knowledge of data governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality concepts.


• Proven ability to influence technical direction and partner cross‑functionally without direct authority.


• Strong problem‑solving, communication, and documentation skills.