Senior Data Engineer

About the Role

At European Wax Center, data is central to how we scale, innovate, and serve our guests. This is a highly hands‑on role focused on building and scaling EWC's modern data platform.

You will own data solutions end‑to‑end, creating trusted, scalable data products that support analytics, reporting, machine learning, and future AI initiatives. Success in this role requires strong technical expertise, a commitment to data quality and governance, and the ability to partner with business stakeholders to define and deliver reliable, business‑ready data assets.

• Building a modern cloud data platform leveraging Snowflake, dbt, AWS, Fivetran, Rudder Stack, and Astronomer.
• Working directly with executive leadership to shape the future of data at EWC.
• Driving meaningful business impact across more than 830 locations nationwide.
• Helping establish the governance, analytics, and AI foundations for the next generation of data capabilities.
• Collaborating with business leaders across every major function of the company.
• Being part of a culture that values ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable DBT models that transform raw data into trusted, analytics‑ready datasets.
• Build clean, reusable dimensional and semantic data models that support enterprise reporting and self‑service analytics.
• Write, optimize, and maintain complex SQL transformations across large‑scale datasets.
• Develop and maintain reusable data products that serve multiple business functions.
• Implement testing, documentation, lineage, and monitoring practices to ensure data quality and reliability.
• Drive adoption of analytics engineering best practices across the organization.

• Partner with business stakeholders to define, document, and maintain enterprise KPIs, metrics, and data definitions.
• Establish consistency across reporting, dashboards, operational reporting, and analytics platforms.
• Serve as a bridge between technical and business teams to ensure alignment on critical business concepts.
• Collaborate with governance platforms such as Atlan or Collibra to maintain metadata, ownership, stewardship, lineage, and certification of trusted data assets.
• Champion data governance standards, naming conventions, documentation practices, and data quality processes.
• Help establish a scalable framework for managing data as a strategic enterprise asset.

• Own data products and pipelines from design through production deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
• Implement data quality frameworks, automated validation processes, and observability standards.
• Define and monitor SLAs for critical data assets and pipelines.
• Conduct root cause analysis and lead post‑mortem reviews for data incidents.
• Continuously improve platform performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Develop Python‑based frameworks and utilities for data quality, validation, automation, and platform operations.
• Build integrations with internal and external systems through APIs and automated workflows.
• Create tooling that improves developer productivity and reduces manual operational effort.
• Support troubleshooting and debugging of production data pipelines.

• Help prepare enterprise data assets for future AI, machine learning, and agent‑based applications.
• Evaluate opportunities to leverage AI‑assisted development and analytics workflows.
• Explore metadata‑driven architectures that improve discoverability, governance, and accessibility of enterprise data.
• Contribute to initiatives involving semantic layers, retrieval‑based architectures, AI‑powered analytics, and intelligent automation.
• Stay informed on emerging trends in analytics engineering, data governance, AI agents, and modern data platforms.

• Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Franchise Operations, Guest Experience, and Digital teams.
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