Vulcan Elements

Vulcan Elements

Data Engineer

Research Triangle Park, NC

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringLeadership

About the role

  • Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure, resilient future.
  • With a focus on national security and economic resiliency, we serve critical industries such as defense, aerospace, and automotive, powering a high-technology future.
  • As Vulcan grows, this role has the opportunity to expand into a team leadership position.

Responsibilities

  • Architecture & Platform Design
  • Design and own Vulcan's data architecture from operational data stores through ETL pipelines to the analytics and AI layer
  • Review, refine, and implement data architecture design documents, ensuring designs are technically sound and account for CUI and ITAR data handling requirements
  • Make and document key platform and design decisions with enough clarity that future team members can understand the reasoning and build on it
  • Apply sound engineering practices to everything you build: version control, testing, observability, and documentation, and hold those standards as the data team grows
  • Design and build ETL pipelines that move data from operational data stores into the data Lakehouse with full contextual enrichment, making it ready for analytics and AI workloads
  • Build reliable ingest paths for structured data, time-series data, files, images, and other outputs from manufacturing and lab systems
  • Collaborate across engineering, operations, and IT to understand data flows, dependencies, and integration requirements, and translate them into pipeline and architecture decisions
  • Diagnose and resolve data quality issues across the stack, and build monitoring into pipelines so problems surface early
  • Define data models that support operational queries, analytical workloads, and future AI and ML applications

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data infrastructure, or a closely related technical role with a track record of owning and delivering production systems
  • Demonstrated experience designing and building data lakes, Lakehouses, or analytical data stores
  • understands the tradeoffs between platforms and can make and defend platform selection decisions
  • Strong experience designing and building ETL/ELT pipelines that enrich and contextualize data
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Company info

  • Vulcan Elements is building a team of ambitious professionals committed to Mission Focus, Technical Excellence, and Transparency.

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