Senior Data Engineer – LLM-Enabled Platforms

OVERVIEW

Acklen Avenue is a trusted partner for digital transformation, helping businesses modernize

legacy systems, streamline operations, and accelerate growth through agile development, staff

augmentation, and industry-specific software solutions that enhance efficiency, improve

customer experiences, and open new revenue opportunities.

Acklen Avenue offers more than talent. Our dedicated teams offer a mature product development

process, staffed with experienced, full-time experts. Our staff augmentation offering delivers fully

vetted and Acklen-approved individual developers to add the right skills when and where you

need them.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience building data platforms and backend

systems, including at least one production project involving LLM features. You excel in Python, SQL,

and Spark/Flink, and have hands-on experience with ELT pipelines, Airflow or Dagster, and both

relational and NoSQL databases. You're comfortable working with containerization, IaC, and data

security best practices, and you collaborate effectively in English and Spanish to deliver clean,

well-structured data that powers AI-driven solutions.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES

● Design and maintain batch and streaming pipelines that feed LLM products with fresh,

clean, well-catalogued data.

● Build ELT jobs in Python or Scala, automate with Airflow/Dagster, and store outputs in data

warehouses and vector stores.

● Expose feature stores and retrieval APIs that Data Scientists can consume easily.

● Keep infrastructure observable (logging/metrics) and cost-efficient

● Contribute to the same coding assessment used for the Data-Science role (data-engineering variant).

POSITION SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

Must have

● 5 + years in data-platform or backend work, including at least one production project that

powered an LLM feature.

● Fluent in Python, plus SQL and Spark/Flink.

● Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL systems, data modeling, and schema evolution.

● Experience with containerization and IaC.

● Solid grasp of version control, unit testing, and code-review culture.

● Business-level English and Spanish.

Nice to have

● Familiarity with vector databases.

● Security best practices for data anonymization and role-based access.

CORE VALUES

At Acklen, we are committed to creating a place for people to grow and improve their lives. We really care about growing people. We are not Messing Around.

Committed to Personal Growth

Seek First to Understand

Bring Out the Best in Others

Solutions-Oriented