Virtuous

Virtuous

Lead Data Platform Engineer

Phoenix, AZ · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 159 days ago
Data StructuresSQLSnowflakeCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningdbtData EngineeringData VisualizationCybersecuritySOC OperationsCustomer SuccessCommunication

About the role

  • Virtuous is evolving its data platform into an AI-ready foundation that powers trusted decision-making and self-service analytics across the company.
  • Ensure AI systems access data exclusively through governed service accounts and role-scoped permissions, with query activity auditable and restricted according to enterprise data classification and access standards.
  • Establish platform standards, templates, and best practices that enable others to move faster without sacrificing quality or security.

Responsibilities

  • This role is ideal for a highly motivated self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and thrives at the intersection of systems design, business semantics, and AI enablement.
  • You'll work closely with the Director of Data Operations as well as our Finance, Product, Engineering and Security Teams to ensure our data platform is accurate, governable, and ready to support AI-enabled workflows across the company.
  • Own the evolution of Virtuous's data platform, primarily on Snowflake and dbt, as a secure, scalable, and AI-ready system.
  • Design data models, metadata, and access patterns that support natural-language querying and AI-assisted analysis.
  • Partner with Data Operations and Teams across the company to ensure data structures are accurate, reusable, and aligned with business definitions.
  • In partnership with Security Operations and IT, translate approved enterprise access and compliance policies into enforceable platform-level controls, and maintain technical configurations to ensure ongoing alignment with those standards.
  • Ensure all platform-level access controls integrate with the enterprise identity provider (SSO, SCIM, role lifecycle management), and support automated provisioning, deprovisioning, and periodic access certification processes.
  • Build governance patterns that are enforced by design - not by manual process.
  • Support periodic access reviews and control validation processes in coordination with Security and Compliance teams, ensuring appropriate separation of duties between policy definition, approval, and technical implementation.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and deployment patterns for dbt and Snowflake.

Requirements

  • Proven systems-thinking mindset, with the ability to reason about tradeoffs across correctness, access, cost, and speed.

Nice to have

  • dbt certification strongly preferred
  • Experience enabling AI/ML or natural-language data access.
  • Familiarity with data observability, lineage, or metadata tooling.
  • Experience designing platforms for self-service analytics.
  • Exposure to BI tools such as Sigma, Looker, or Tableau.
  • Experience working in lean, fast-growing organizations where leverage matters more than headcount.
  • Asking questions with a spirit of curiosity
  • Giving feedback freely with candor & grace, welcoming it in return

Compensation

  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days

Benefits

  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days
  • We value our employee's work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PTO
  • Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays
  • Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
  • 12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well)

Company info

  • Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.
  • Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world's leading nonprofits
  • We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.
  • The ideal candidate for Virtuous embodies our values by:
  • Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors.
  • We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.
  • Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector.
  • We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world's leading nonprofits
  • We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work.
  • That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve.
  • We take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously.
  • We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.
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