Principal Data Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Salary :

Principal Data Engineer Location : Dallas

Join CellPoint Digital : Shape the Future of Payments with Us!

At CellPoint Digital, were revolutionizing the way businesses in the air, travel, and hospitality sectors manage their payments.

With our Leading Payment Orchestration Platform, were turning payments into a strategic advantage, helping clients optimize their payment experience to boost profits, maximize approvals, lower costs and take control of their payment, resulting in more money to the bottom line.

We believe payments should be a strategic asset, delivering financial, customer, and operational value. Our vision is to unify the payment ecosystem, opening up a world of opportunities for leading brands in the air, travel, and hospitality industries. We transform the payment supply chain from a cost center into a profit engine, turning every transaction into an opportunity for growth and competitive advantage.

At our core, we're innovators and problem-solvers united by five key values : Mission First, Ownership, Trust & Transparency, Driven, and One Team. We're ambitious professionals who embrace accountability and transform payments together.

Our diverse community spans the globe, with hubs in Buenos Aires, Bogota, Copenhagen, Dallas, Dubai, London, Mexico, Miami, Pune, Singapore, and Sofia, along with remote team members worldwide. We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences that make our team extraordinary.

Join us as a Data Architect on our mission to turn payments into possibilities!

Principal Data Engineer

We are currently seeking a hands-on data engineer with years of experience building and supporting large-scale, cloud-first platforms.

This role requires an amalgam of several different cutting-edge data skills. Primarily this is a high-performing data engineering role, focused on building out a robust, scalable data engineering platform. The ideal candidate has the background and foresight to architect this solution and create it. While the skills and detail to architect the solution are critical, the job will primarily involve building it out; coding the solution.

As mentioned above, you will be a key member of the small and growing team that is building out an entirely new platform for managing transactions at a massive scale. While CellPoint Digital is a fairly small company, due to our business focus, we work with very large companies that require massive velocity. For example, we have an internal goal of soon supporting 1 million transactions per second. In order to achieve these ambitious targets, we rely heavily on Google Cloud Platform native tools throughout our platform. In our data ETL process, for instance, we rely upon Dataflow to deliver the needed message velocity to our customers in real-time.

The role also requires a deep understanding of, and empathy for, robust data governance. You will create, vet, and document rules and methodologies to manage data storage, PII, data for auditing purposes, etc. You will do this in conjunction with security experts; we are not looking for someone with deep knowledge of data laws and regulations. However we are looking for someone passionate about data protection and governance.

There will also be the creation of data lineage, discoverability, visualization, and quality tools. We need metrics available to show what data is most useful, what data is most accurate, and what data is rarely accessed and potentially can be deprecated. Also, our data is directly used by customers to determine not only how well we are performing, but how much payment traffic they have seen, how well their payment providers are performing, and many other details of interest to our customers.

Finally, the role will involve creating a data enablement platform. You will develop a data platform that will enable others with little technical expertise to easily generate their own reports and dashboards. Think of this as a software platform but for data products. This will involve creating an infrastructure backbone. All infrastructure work is performed using infrastructure-as-code best practices.

Beyond the short term, once the essential data engineering work is complete and in production, you will be responsible for building out critical machine learning products. For instance, payment processor routing will require machine learning products for optimized, real-time payment processor routing. There are many more solutions beyond this.

You will be a key member deciding what technologies we should adopt within the data team. The team is dynamic and will adopt and deprecate solutions as appropriate.

How You Will Make an Impact :

• Core member of a small team of architects deciding upon critical data capture infrastructure.
• Direct code contributions to all aspects of the data delivery pipeline and dashboards.
• Decision power in data platform architecture and technologies adopted
• Responsible for data security and availability
• Own data visualization product for end customers (and internal customers)
• Use cutting-edge Google Cloud Platform data products such as Dataflow, Looker, and BigQuery for massive-scale, real-time data throughput
• Create end-to-end and localized, fully automated tests to ensure code quality and data quality
• Interact with all microservices throughout the product
• Create a data platform to enable less technical people to create their own dashboards and reports
• (Mid- to long-term) Create machine learning products to enhance the payment orchestration product
• Collaborate with fellow engineers and product owners across teams to ensure a cohesive product

Skills you will have fine-tuned :

What's in it for you :

Significant authority with accompanying high responsibility and accountability

What makes CellPoint Digital a leader in the payment landscape isnt just our technology - its our people and how we work together. Weve built a global community where diverse talents and perspectives unite to create innovative solutions. When you join us, you become part of something bigger : a collaborative culture that crosses borders and disciplines, bringing out the best in every team member to deliver breakthrough results for our clients and partners.

Together, we are transforming the payments industry - challenging, supporting, and inspiring one another in the process.