The Role

As Staff Data Engineer, you will provide senior onshore technical leadership for the data engineering team. You will own a defined slice of our centralized Databricks data platform with full accountability for decisions and delivery, serve as a technical counterpart to the Principal Data Platform Engineer, and drive architectural judgment and independent problem-solving as platform complexity scales post-migration.

This is a hands-on data engineering role focused on building and maintaining production pipelines, exercising architectural judgment on data modeling and pipeline design, and serving as the onshore escalation point and institutional knowledge backup for platform decisions.

The Business Challenge

We operate multiple product lines (Transfer Pricing, R&D Services, RoyaltyStat, Provisioning), each with distinct databases containing enterprise financial data—journal entries, general ledgers, and financial statements. Our immediate challenge is migrating multi-terabyte datasets from legacy systems to a unified Databricks lakehouse while establishing governance patterns that enable multi-product operations at scale. As the platform matures, the data engineering team needs senior onshore technical presence to drive architecture ownership and maintain platform quality.

What You'll Build

• Production Data Pipelines: Build and maintain production data pipelines within the patterns and governance established by the Lead Data Platform Engineer, ensuring reliability and performance at multi-terabyte scale.
• Data Modeling & Architecture: Exercise architectural judgment on data modeling, pipeline design, and platform usage—translating complex business requirements into scalable data solutions across our product portfolio.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage proactively with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions, serving as the primary onshore technical point of contact for data engineering needs.
• Platform Quality: Drive platform quality through code reviews, testing practices, and engineering standards that ensure the team delivers reliable, maintainable data infrastructure.
• Knowledge & Continuity: Serve as onshore escalation point and institutional knowledge backup for platform decisions, reducing single-point-of-failure risk and building onshore technical depth as the platform scales.

Business Problems You'll Solve

• Multi-Product Data Delivery: Implement data pipelines that serve multiple product lines (Transfer Pricing, R&D Services, RoyaltyStat, Provisioning) with distinct data requirements, ensuring each product gets the data it needs reliably and on schedule.
• Legacy Migration Execution: Lead pipeline implementation for migrating multi-terabyte datasets from legacy systems to Databricks, working within the architecture defined by the Lead Data Platform Engineer.
• Onshore Technical Leadership: Provide the senior judgment layer the current nearshore team cannot—owning problems end-to-end, making independent architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers to raise the quality bar across the team.
• Cross-Team Coordination: Bridge the gap between product teams and data infrastructure, translating business requirements into data solutions and ensuring the data platform delivers on product commitments.

Required Experience

Core Data Engineering

• SQL, Python, and PySpark—production pipeline implementation and performance optimization
• Databricks experience—Delta Lake, Workflows, and Databricks SQL; Unity Catalog familiarity preferred
• 5+ years in data engineering with demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end without close direction
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines at scale, including error handling, monitoring, and data quality validation
• Strong data modeling skills across structured and semi-structured data sources

Platform & Infrastructure

• AWS experience (S3, IAM, VPC) with ability to collaborate on infrastructure decisions
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred)
• Familiarity with data governance patterns (Unity Catalog, data lineage, access controls)

Technical Leadership

• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent architectural judgment—not just ticket execution
• Experience mentoring or guiding junior and mid-level data engineers
• Strong written and verbal communication—able to document architecture decisions and engage directly with both technical and business stakeholders
• Onshore (US-based)—role requires timezone overlap, async-light communication, and direct stakeholder engagement

Preferred But Not Required

• Experience with financial data, accounting systems (NetSuite), or enterprise ERP platforms
• Background building pipelines that serve AI/ML workloads (preparing data for downstream ML consumption, RAG, and LLMs)
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and compliance requirements for regulated industries
• Experience working alongside or transitioning from nearshore engineering teams

What We Offer

(The following only applies to US-based positions)

• A collaborative team culture with opportunities for career development.
• Ample opportunities to be recognized, build valuable skills, and grow your career.
• Generous vacation policy, including paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive health plans with FSA and HSA options.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life and disability insurance coverage.
• Supplemental benefits like a dependent care savings plan, pet insurance, will preparation, and an employee assistance program.

About Us

At Exactera, a FinTech SaaS start-up founded in 2016, we stand at the intersection of human and machine intelligence. Our corporate tax solutions are powered by AI and cloud-based technologies, serving customers worldwide. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities for all.

About Us

About Us

Company Overview 

Asset Living is a third-party management firm with a proven partner in fostering thriving communities nationwide. Founded in 1986, Asset Living has decades of experience delivering exceptional value to our partners. Since the beginning, our undeniable passion has driven our organic growth from a small property management firm to one of the most trusted allies in real estate. Asset Living's growing portfolio includes a multitude of properties across the country that span the multifamily, single-family home rentals, affordable housing, build-to-rent, active adult, and student housing divisions.   

Asset Living is a fast-growing company made up of talented individuals from diverse backgrounds that differentiate us and help us drive innovation and results for our clients and communities across the US. At Asset Living, we wholeheartedly believe 'Together We Lead, Together We Succeed. We empower each other to lead by example, collaborate, and evolve – inspired by our belief that we can continually improve as individuals and as an organization. Together, we create an environment where every voice is heard, every idea is valued, and every individual experiences opportunities to grow as our company grows. When you join Asset Living, you become part of a dynamic team that thrives on unity, unique talents, and a universal culture of winning.    

Recognized as one of the nation's Best and Brightest Places to Work and ranked in the NMHC top 50 professionals, join Asset Living because of its reputation as the most trusted partner in real estate, workplace culture, and growth opportunities. Asset Living is a member of The Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and is recognized as an Accredited Management Organization (AMO). Together, we lead the way, and together, we achieve excellence in all that we do. Join a workplace where success is a collective journey and leadership is a shared responsibility.   

TOPS Community Manager Specialist 

The TOPS Community Manager Specialist is a floating leadership role within Asset Living’s internal talent agency (TOPS). This position provides short-term (1–90 day) on-site operational leadership to communities experiencing staffing transitions, vacancies, new acquisitions, performance needs, or stabilization efforts. 

The role mirrors all responsibilities of a standard Community Manager while providing rapid-deployment support, stabilizing site operations, and ensuring compliance with Asset’s policies, procedures, and service standards. The TOPS Community Manager Specialist must be highly adaptable, capable of quickly assessing operational gaps, and skilled in stepping into leadership roles with little transition time. 

Assignments vary and may include multifamily, affordable, BTR, active adult, or student housing environments. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Operational Leadership & Site Oversight 

• Oversee daily operations of assigned communities in alignment with Asset Living Community Manager expectations.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, safety practices, fair housing, and operational standards.
• Conduct daily property walks, risk assessments, and quality checks.
• Lead the emergency response process for the community while on assignment. 

Personnel Management 

• Provide short-term supervision, coaching, and direction to on-site staff; ensure operational continuity.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and training needs as requested by Regional leadership.
• Promote teamwork, stability, and performance during temporary leadership transitions. 

Financial & Administrative Management 

• Ensure timely rent collection, deposit reconciliation, invoice processing, and accurate financial reporting.
• Support or create budgets/forecasts as assigned; identify trends and recommend corrective actions.
• Review and approve resident files, leases, renewals, and required documentation. 

Strategic Leasing Management 

• Ensure leasing and marketing strategies are executed effectively—closure rates, follow-up, documentation, and reporting. 
• Assist with resident satisfaction initiatives, retention efforts, and event execution.
• Support leasing teams in achieving occupancy goals and stabilizing performance. 

Maintenance & Risk Management 

• Monitor service request turnaround times; ensure resident expectations are met.
• Ensure property appearance standards are maintained through inspections and timely repair oversight.
• Coordinate with maintenance, contractors, and vendors to ensure work is completed safely and efficiently. 

Assignment Readiness & Adaptability 

• Rapidly assess operational strengths, gaps, and priorities at each assignment to ensure smooth continuity.
• Provide high-confidence leadership during transitions such as turnovers, manager vacancies, or property onboarding.
• Serve as an Asset Living culture ambassador, modeling best practices and reinforcing departmental standards. 

Education & Experience

• High school diploma required; bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Two to four years of property management experience preferred.
• CAM or ARM certification preferred.
• Ability to learn and execute all on-site software functions.
• Knowledge of Fair Housing and OSHA requirements.
• Travel Requirements:
  • Frequent travel required; role may rotate between properties weekly or monthly.
  • Reliable transportation required. 

This job description should not be considered all-inclusive. It is merely a guide of expected duties. The employee understands that the job description is neither complete nor permanent and may be modified at any time. At the request of their supervisor, an employee may be asked to perform additional duties or take on additional responsibilities without notice. This is a safety-sensitive position and may be subject to additional compliance requirements.

For individuals hired to work in California, Asset Living is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the State of California and includes the range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; certifications; etc. We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would be near the top end of the compensation range, but that decision will be dependent on the facts associated with each specific individual’s relevant experience for the role.  A reasonable estimate of the range is $65,000 - $75,000.