Lead Data Solutions Developer

At Commerce our mission is to empower businesses to innovate grow and thrive with our open AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce Feedonomics and Makeswift we connect the tools and systems that power growth enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. Simply said we help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter adapt faster and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders sharp thinkers and technical trailblazers working together to shape the future of commerce this is the place for you.

At Commerce we’re transforming how merchants harness data to scale their businesses and innovate online. As a Lead Data Engineer and Modeler you will shape the foundational architecture that powers both our customer-facing analytics products and our internal decision-making systems. You’ll be at the forefront of building scalable secure and high-performance data infrastructure—enabling predictive insights AI-driven tools and analytics at enterprise scale.

This role is a unique opportunity to influence the future of data at Commerce. You will collaborate across product engineering and data teams to design and optimize data platforms ensuring they are built for both agility and long-term growth. Beyond infrastructure you’ll drive data modeling best practices that translate business and product requirements into intuitive reliable and reusable structures.

If you’re passionate about clean architecture high-quality data systems and enabling intelligence at scale this role will give you the chance to lead Commerce into its next generation of data innovation.

Platform Leadership

• Build a scalable unified data lake and mart across clouds (GCP and AWS) and across different types of data storage in collaboration with the Enterprise Architect Principal Data Architect and Product Engineering teams

• Partner with product engineering and data science to ensure the data architecture aligns with product goals and technical realities

• Select implement and manage the modern data stack—covering ingestion transformation storage orchestration and access controls

• Drive performance reliability and cost-optimization of analytics systems at scale

• Adhere to existing technical patterns and standards for warehouse design ETL/ELT pipelines and data access APIs

• Work closely with the Product Managers to convert roadmap objectives into architectural blueprints

• Incorporate new data sources and translate business and analytics needs into technical requirements for data infrastructure

• Guide software development teams in adhering to data patterns and data quality best practices
   

Governance & Quality

• Champion data integrity privacy and security—embedding governance and observability into the data platform

• Implement scalable strategies for lineage tracking cataloging and metadata management across the entire organization
   

Data Modeling

• Develop and maintain logical and physical data models to support customer-facing and internal analytics and business intelligence use cases  

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align data models with evolving feature requirements and user workflows

• Establish modeling standards that ensure consistency reusability and performance across product domains multi-tenant environments and different data storage types

• 7+ years in data engineering modeling or analytics platforms ideally within SaaS or product analytics environments

• Proven ability to design systems that support both real-time and batch workloads at scale

• Strong foundation in dimensional and normalized modeling warehouse design and ETL/ELT pipelines

• Exposure and interest in Data Architecture

• Technical Mastery Across the Modern Data Stack

• Hands-on experience with cloud warehouses (BigQuery Snowflake) orchestration frameworks (Airflow dbt Spark Flink) and BI tools (Looker Tableau Power BI)

• Skilled in SQL Python Bash and Git-based CI/CD for data infrastructure

• Familiarity with event streaming platforms (Kafka Kinesis) GraphQL NoSQL databases and cloud platforms (AWS GCP).

• Collaboration & Communication

• Strong ability to partner with engineers analysts and product leaders to align architecture with business goals

• Skilled at simplifying complex systems and communicating technical solutions to diverse stakeholders

• Governance & Innovation Mindset

• Experience embedding data integrity privacy and compliance standards (GDPR SOC) into large-scale platforms

• Exposure to embedded analytics data APIs and machine learning pipelines

• A passion for clean scalable architecture and enabling intelligence through data

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(Pay Transparency Range: $102000 - $172000)

At Commerce we believe that celebrating the unique histories perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute grow and thrive.

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What We Do

Commerce (Nasdaq: CMRC) empowers businesses to innovate grow and thrive through an open AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce Feedonomics and Makeswift we help brands unlock the full potential of their data connect systems and deliver seamless personalized experiences across every channel. Visit commerce.com or follow us for more. #PoweredByCommerce

Why Work With Us

Ask any employee what makes Commerce unique they will tell you it's the people. The team is full of brilliant dedicated individuals focused on revolutionizing the world of ecommerce. We foster a culture that encourages inclusion of every employee celebrating our individuality and the values that bring us together.

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