Staff Data Engineer - GM Motorsports

General Motors · Remote, United States

The

Staff Data Engineer

is an expert-level individual contributor who sets technical direction for complex

Motorsports

data engineering initiatives. The role will lead architecture and engineering practices for real-time data ingestion, telemetry, data quality, cloud platforms, and race-day operational systems. The Staff Data Engineer will influence technical decisions across the organization, mentor engineers, and partner with engineering, data science, platform, product, and racing stakeholders to deliver durable business outcomes.
Set technical direction and develop target-state architecture for complex, cross-system data platforms and products.
Design and implement innovative, scalable solutions for real-time ingestion, telemetry, event and session data, data quality, and analytical products.
Establish and own measurable technical and operational outcomes, including reliability, data quality, throughput, cycle time, recovery, and service-level performance.
Develop standards, policies, methods, and reusable patterns for schemas, data contracts, observability, testing, deployment, security, and recovery.
Lead technical planning, dependency management, risk identification, and sequencing for roadmap and race-critical work.
Anticipate and escalate risks that could affect customers, race operations, delivery commitments, or functional outcomes, while providing actionable recommendations.
Improve operational reliability through incident leadership, root-cause analysis, automation, runbooks, and permanent corrective actions.
Influence adoption of new approaches through data, clear communication, persuasion, and collaboration across teams with differing priorities or practices.
Serve as a technical resource and indirect leader by mentoring engineers, guiding design reviews, and raising engineering capability across the organization.
Partner with stakeholders to understand customer and business needs and translate them into scalable data solutions.
Champion change management and continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and ways of working.
Deep expertise in data engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production software development.
Strong programming experience in Python, Java, Scala, or a comparable language.
Experience designing and operating streaming and batch data pipelines at production scale.
Strong knowledge of data modeling, schema evolution, data quality, observability, testing, deployment, and incident response.
Strong communication, collaboration, technical writing, and mentoring skills.
Experience with Databricks, Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or comparable technologies.
Experience with real-time telemetry, event processing, time-series data, or latency-sensitive production workloads.
Experience with data science, machine learning, analytics, or engineering strategy teams.
Experience establishing engineering standards, technical communities of practice, or cross-functional architecture forums.
Interest in motorsports, vehicle systems, race strategy, or performance engineering.
The Staff Data Engineer is expected to demonstrate GM behaviors by:
Committing to customers by understanding stakeholder needs and delivering high-quality outcomes.
Speaking fearlessly by raising risks, challenging assumptions respectfully, and offering actionable solutions.
Measurable improvement in reliability, observability, data quality, and recovery readiness for critical data products.
Documented adoption of reusable data engineering standards and target-state architecture.
Stronger engineering capability through mentoring, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Demonstrated impact on Motorsports functional outcomes and race-day readiness.
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
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