Data Platform Engineer — Scale Pipelines & Data Lake

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

iCapital is seeking an exceptional Data Engineer to help scale the data foundations that power the business. This individual will design, build, and optimize the data pipelines and infrastructure that enable data to be a strategic asset across the organization. The role is highly collaborative and partners with Product, Engineering, Analytics teams, and business stakeholders to quickly understand evolving challenges and deliver scalable, maintainable, and high‑quality solutions.

• Develop and automate large‑scale, high‑performance data platform pipelines and infrastructure to drive iCapital business growth and enable data‑driven decision making.
• Design and develop reusable components and frameworks for ingestion, cleansing, and data quality.
• Streamline the ingestion of raw data from various sources into the Data Lake and Data Warehouse.
• Design data models for optimal storage and retrieval that represent the tangible business domains across iCapital’s ecosystem.
• Coordinate closely with Operations, Sales, and Product Development teams daily to push iCapital’s Fin Tech strategy and improve overall profitability.

• 6–10 years of professional experience in a data engineering or data‑driven software engineering role.
• Exceptional Python and SQL skills.
• Extensive experience with orchestration frameworks (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
• Deep understanding of OLAP (Snowflake, Databricks) and OLTP (Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB) databases and ELT frameworks (dbt, dlthub).
• Experience developing and deploying code to cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong grasp of object‑oriented and functional programming and ability to write easy‑to‑scale, high‑quality code.
• Experience leveraging stream processing frameworks (Kafka, Flink, Spark).
• Knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks (Terraform or Cloud Formation).
• Detail‑oriented and able to multitask in a fast‑paced environment.
• Capable of working independently and as a strong team player.
• Passionate about learning and mastering cutting‑edge technologies.
• Professional experience with JVM‑based languages such as Scala, Java, and Kotlin is preferred.
• Knowledge of financial markets and financial instruments is preferred.

The base salary range for this role is $100,000 to $135,000. iCapital offers a compensation package that includes salary, equity for all full‑time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer‑matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer‑paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affidavits Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.