Senior Data Engineer Solution Design Focused
About the role
About Unybrands
Founded in 2020, unybrands is the next-generation brand accelerator platform built to acquire, integrate, and scale digital-first consumer brands. Headquartered in Miami, with offices in New York, London, Berlin, and Shenzhen, our 240+ team brings deep expertise across e-commerce, brand management, consumer retail, operational scaling, and M&A.
Since inception, we have acquired 30+ brands across Pet Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Supplements, Baby & Juvenile, Garden & Outdoor, Sports & Fitness, and Home & Lifestyle — completing 20+ acquisitions and delivering 16 consecutive quarters of like-for-like organic growth post-integration.
Our competitive advantage lies in a fully integrated operating system purpose-built to transform digital brands into omni-channel category leaders. Powered by a proprietary technology stack built on NetSuite ERP with 200+ data integrations, our platform enables brands to thrive across marketplaces, direct-to-consumer channels, and brick-and-mortar retail.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer with deep expertise in GCP solution architecture to join our engineering team. You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and optimizing secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform. By combining your technical skills with your understanding of e-commerce, CPG, or retail, you'll transform complex business needs into innovative, impactful solutions. If you're passionate about cloud architecture, thrive in fast-paced environments, and enjoy solving complex challenges, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
- Architect Scalable Cloud Solutions: Lead the design and implementation of end-to-end GCP-based architectures covering data, applications, infrastructure, and security.
- Build Robust Data Pipelines: Develop and maintain reliable ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like Airflow, DBT, and languages like Python and SQL.
- Optimize BigQuery Warehousing: Design schemas, tune queries, and manage costs while working with large, complex datasets.
- Ensure Data Quality & Governance: Implement standards for data accuracy, consistency, and lineage tracking.
- Drive Performance & Efficiency: Monitor and optimize the performance and cost-effectiveness of cloud solutions.
- Leverage Industry Knowledge: Apply your domain expertise to solve real-world retail, e-commerce, and supply chain challenges.
- Maintain Security & Compliance: Build secure solutions aligned with privacy laws and industry best practices.
- Lead & Mentor: Guide engineers, share best practices, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with stakeholders to define requirements and ensure solution success.
- Document Clearly: Produce high-quality design docs, architecture diagrams, and best-practice guides.
What You Bring
- 8+ years in IT, with 3+ in cloud architecture or GCP solutions
- Proven hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services
- Strong knowledge of data architecture, ETL/ELT, and data warehousing (BigQuery)
- Solid coding skills