Senior Data Engineer, Governance

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to lead our data governance and security efforts. This role sits on the Core Data Team, which is focused on delivering high-quality data and tooling on a reliable and scalable platform. You’ll work closely with your Core Data and Platform Engineering colleagues to enhance the discoverability and accessibility of our data while ensuring compliance with GameChanger and industry standards and regulations. The solutions you build will benefit everyone including Analysts, Product Managers, Marketers, Developers, Executives, Coaches, Players, and Parents!

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build Data Governance services, systems, and product features to classify data, track data lineage and provenance, secure its access and audit its usage

• Utilize Python, SQL, GitHub, Airflow, Snowflake, and DBT to build data integration workflows and observability tools.

• Collaborate within the Core Data team to develop, update and maintain secure data infrastructure, including designing and implementing data pipelines, ETL processes, and data access controls

• Collaborate with Platform and Security teams to achieve compliance with internal cybersecurity standards (inspired by NIST) throughout the governance lifecycle, including conducting regular audits and risk assessments

• Lead efforts to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities and security risks within data systems and infrastructure

• Lead supporting data initiatives, providing insights and guidance on data governance, security and compliance

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies related to data governance and security and compliance, and make recommendations for process improvements and enhancements

• Share your knowledge through technical documentation, code reviews, and mentoring

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of software development experience, preferably as a data or backend engineer focused on the data governance and/or security space

• Experience with a data governance platform like DataHub or homegrown equivalent

• Expertise in Python and/or Spark for the processing of data

• Expertise with data warehouse management in Snowflake

• Experience with containers and orchestration tools

• Proven experience with cloud security primitives in AWS such as IAM and Security Groups

• Strong experience with version control systems like GitHub and working collaboratively in a team environment

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams

• Drive to help others learn and improve themselves as engineers

• Evangelist for adopting robust data governance and security practices across the company

Bonus Points:

• Experience with privacy compliance and regulations

• Experience working with Kafka, Scala, Typescript and Node.js

• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform

• Experience with Github Actions, DataDog

• Experience with dbt and Airflow

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• WFH stipend – $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend – $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits – medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance – basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave – short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings – 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $190,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

*DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect us from compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.