Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ranger Technical Resources is a growing SaaS organization in the legal and professional services industry, and they are seeking a Senior AI Data Engineer to help architect and scale their first centralized AI-ready data platform. This highly hands-on role involves building scalable lakehouse infrastructure, developing data models, creating ingestion pipelines, and designing AI workflows to enhance product experiences.
Responsibilities
- Architect and expand a centralized AWS lakehouse platform
- Develop scalable Bronze, Silver, and Gold data models using dbt
- Build ingestion and CDC pipelines across SQL Server and SaaS platforms
- Design and maintain orchestration workflows using Airflow/MWAA
- Support Redshift, Athena, Glue, S3, and Iceberg-based analytics infrastructure
- Build embedding, retrieval, and vector search pipelines for structured and unstructured data
- Design RAG workflows that support AI-powered product experiences
- Implement governance, IAM, encryption, and tenant isolation best practices
- Improve observability, reliability, and scalability across data systems
- Partner with engineering and product leadership on AI platform strategy and architecture
- Help establish engineering standards and best practices within a growing AI ecosystem
- Contribute to future AI agents and MCP-style integrations
Skills
- BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience/field
- Hands-on experience building AWS-based data platforms in production environments
- Proven experience with dbt, SQL, and Python in modern lakehouse or analytics ecosystems
- Experience designing scalable data ingestion and CDC pipelines
- Exposure to production GenAI or RAG implementations
- Background working within SaaS, legal tech, fintech, or regulated environments is highly preferred
- AWS
- Dbt
- SQL
- Python
- Airflow
- MWAA
- Redshift
- Athena
- Glue
- S3
- CDC
- Iceberg
- RAG
- LangChain
- OpenSearch
- Embeddings
- Vector Databases
- Data Modeling
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- Lakehouse Architecture
- Background working within SaaS, legal tech, fintech, or regulated environments is highly preferred
Company Overview
Ranger Technical Resources is information technology consulting firm. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://rangertech.com/.