The Role
Lead the data engineering function at Catalant by designing and maintaining the data infrastructure, working cross-functionally to ensure reliable data for AI and analytics.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Catalant:
As the pioneer of Consulting 2.0, Catalant gives the world’s leading companies on-demand access to a community of highly vetted independent consultants and former operators. From individual consultants to full project teams, we deliver the right expertise to solve our clients’ most important challenges. Our clients include more than 30% of the Fortune 500, top private equity firms, and global consultancies, all seeking a more flexible, cost-effective way to get high-impact work done.
We’ve reimagined consulting for today’s world: it’s digitally enabled, fit-for-purpose, and designed to deliver outcomes, not just hours. Our proprietary platform powers our ability to connect companies with Catalant Experts and Teams who’ve solved similar problems before. Backed by world-class venture investors, we’re building the team that will take Catalant and the future of consulting to the next level.
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to lead the data engineering function at Catalant. You’ll design, build, and maintain the data infrastructure that powers Catalant’s product, AI/ML innovation, analytics, and reporting. This is a highly cross-functional role: you’ll work closely with our core engineering team, AI/ML engineers driving Catalant’s AI strategy, our Director of Revenue Operations & Analytics, and business stakeholders across the company who rely on clean, reliable data for insights and decision-making. Be part of Catalant’s journey to expand our data capabilities and transform how we leverage data for impact.
Our team values diversity in experience and backgrounds—we do our best work when we create space for different voices and perspectives. Whatever unique experiences or skill sets you bring, we look forward to learning from each other.
What you'll do
- Data Architecture & Infrastructure: Design, build, and optimize the company’s data architecture, pipelines, and warehouse to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with product engineers, AI/ML engineers, analytics, and RevOps to integrate data solutions that support both product features and business intelligence.
- ETL/ELT Development: Develop and maintain pipelines that move and transform data from multiple internal and external sources.
- Facilitate Analytics & AI: Ensure high-quality, well-structured data is available for AI/ML applications, product analytics, and companywide reporting.
- Governance & Best Practices: Establish best practices for data quality, monitoring, documentation, and security.
- Enablement & Documentation: Document data standards and reusable modeling patterns to empower engineers, other teams, and future teammates.
- Technical Ownership: Take projects from planning through execution, with ownership over architecture and implementation decisions.
What you'll bring
- At least 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with proven experience designing and scaling modern data architectures and pipelines.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Expertise with data warehouse technologies (e.g., BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar).
- Fluency in SQL
- Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, Dagster).
- Experience working with APIs and integrating diverse data sources.
- Strong understanding of data modeling and performance optimization.
- Experience with streaming solutions such as Spark Streaming, Kafka, or Flink is desirable but not required.
- Professional experience with at least one cloud platform such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure (Google Cloud preferred).
- Ability to partner effectively across engineering, AI/ML, analytics, and company stakeholders.
- Knowledge of RAG and other design patterns for AI applications
- Ability to define, explain, and sell long-term vision for technical architecture, technical approaches / procedures, etc.
- Comfortable taking ownership and setting the direction for data engineering at a growing company.
- Ability to work with urgency, a strong sense of curiosity, and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies.
About Catalant’s Engineering Team
We value collaboration and teamwork, and strive for pragmatic solutions. We’re a Python shop on the Flask framework. We use MySQL and Elasticsearch with Big Query and Databricks pipelines all deployed in GCP. We leverage CI and CD and utilize the scrum framework to develop new features and platform improvements. Our business operations run on Salesforce. If you get stuck on a problem, the team is right there to help get you moving again. We are excited to be adding a data engineer to our team that can help us bring our application and business operations to the next level while pioneering Consulting 2.0.
Benefits
At Catalant, we strive to offer a work environment where employees can bring however much of their full, authentic self as they desire. With this in mind, we are happy to offer our employees:
- Flexible paid time off
- 13 company holidays + a week off from Christmas through New Years
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave regardless of how you choose to grow your family
- Generous health insurance coverage as well as optional vision and dental
- 401k to save for retirement
- Pre-tax commuter and flexible spending accounts
- A lifestyle spending account to be used towards cell phone, internet, commuting, and learning & development
- Wellness stipend for your mental, emotional, or physical wellbeing needs and support
- Work from Home stipend
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Catalant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Catalant makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business objectives and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, qualified physical or mental disability, genetic condition or predisposition, or any other status protected by law. All Catalant employees are prohibited from engaging in any form of discrimination.
We have a flexible hybrid work model, where employees local to our Boston headquarters come into our office on a flexible basis, and other employees are fully remote. We are hiring and conducting interviews and onboarding either virtually or in person if local to Boston, depending on what makes most sense based on the specific candidate and new hire. Talk to our People Team to learn more!
Top Skills
Airflow
AWS
Azure
BigQuery
Dagster
Databricks
Dbt
Fivetran
Flink
GCP
Kafka
Python
Redshift
Snowflake
Spark Streaming
SQL
What the Team is Saying
Kyle
Sr. Director, Revenue Operations
Fernanda
Sr. Digital Marketing Manager
Julia
Principal Product Manager
Emmett
Client Partner
Danny
Sr. Software Engineer
Victoria
Chief Legal Officer & Head of People
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The Company
What We Do
Catalant, the pioneer of Consulting 2.0, has helped the biggest and best companies use independent consultants for their most important work for over 10 years. More than 30% of the Fortune 500, top PE firms, and leading consultancies partner with Catalant to gain access to highly skilled, experienced business professionals who’ve solved their exact problems before. Over 100k talented independent consultants count themselves as Catalant Experts.
We reinvented the traditional consulting model with our modern, digitally-enabled approach to solving complex business problems, giving leaders (even those outside of the C-suite) direct access through a technology platform to the expertise of senior operators, SMEs, and former consultants. With backing from some of the world's top venture capital firms, we continue to bolster our industry-leading platform by growing the team that will take Catalant to the next level.
Why Work With Us
With more companies shifting to having a flexible and agile workforce, the freelance economy is taking off, making Catalant more relevant than ever. As companies are leveraging our marketplace more, the work our employees do is incredibly impactful. We take our work seriously but have a lot of fun and laughter along the way.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We have a flexible hybrid work model, where employees local to our Boston HQ come into our office on a flexible basis (typically once a week), and other employees are fully remote. Talk to our People team to learn more!
Typical time on-site:
Flexible
Boston, MA
Our Boston HQ is in the Seaport neighborhood — an area with a dynamic food scene and many of Boston's emerging tech companies.
