Senior Integration and Data Engineer (Washington)

Senior Integration and Data Engineer

Union Plus | Hybrid - Washington, DC area

About Union Plus

Union Plus is a nonprofit on a mission: deliver real, money-saving benefits to the 15 million working people across roughly 65 AFL-CIO affiliated unions and their families. From mortgages and education savings to wireless discounts and hardship grants, we put union solidarity to work in members' everyday lives — and we've been doing it for over 40 years.

About This Role

The Senior Integration and Data Engineer is a key development role on our data team. You’ll report to the Director, Development, Data Strategy & Analytics, who is hands-on technically and owns data strategy, and work alongside two data analysts and the marketing team. You’ll bring experience in Python development, managing observability stacks, and owning data integrations, along with strong project management skills and a collaborative approach.

What You'll Do

• Own the data integrations with Iterable, Bird and Twilio. Develop and maintain the pipelines that sync member profiles, events and engagement data; meet SLAs for data freshness and accuracy; serve as the technical point of contact with those vendors; develop strategies and solutions to meet the needs of Union Plus team members leveraging these systems.
• Manage our observability stack which leverages a variety of metric tools including Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry. Define what we monitor and alert on, build and maintain the dashboards the team uses to track integration and infrastructure health and lead the response when something breaks.
• Help manage, contribute to and monitor integrations developed in Python.
• Support the management, maintenance and auditing of Google Cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Help manage and maintain Linux environments using VMs, Docker, etc.
• Contribute to strategy discussions around data architecture and data health using a variety of SQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases, and assist with implementation and remediation.
• Assist with additional internal and external data exchanges.
• Assist with API and CLI development.
• Assist with development and integration of testing frameworks, disaster recovery methodology and security.
• Partner with our Senior Marketing Data Analyst & Senior Analytics Coordinator to build the pipelines and Grafana / Google Analytics dashboards required by the team to manage our business effectively.

What We're Looking For

• Development tools and practices. Strong software development background, with proficiency in Git and ticketing systems, and technical documentation. Experience managing cloud infrastructures and several tools/environments mentioned in this job description. 4+ years’ experience with Python development and 2+ years experience integrating with a customer engagement or marketing automation platform (Iterable strongly preferred; Braze, Klaviyo, SFMC also relevant). Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack such as Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry.
• Data architecture and strategic thinking. You understand how data flows across systems and how to structure it for reliable analysis and activation. You connect business objectives to data requirements, uncover actionable insights, and make thoughtful strategic decisions that support scalable, measurable outcomes.
• Project management chops. You can run multiple projects at once and hit deadlines efficiently.
• Mission alignment. You care about working people and organized labor, or you're genuinely curious to learn.

Strongly Preferred Skills

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases
• Experience with PHP and Node.js
• Experience with various package managers
• Understanding of encryption at rest
• Understanding of cyber security risks, and mitigation
• Capability to review and resolve implementation issues using logs, cli and other available tools and metrics

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $120,000 - $145,000, plus an annual bonus typically averaging 5-7% of annual salary.

Here's the part that's genuinely unusual:

Union Plus offers a benefits package that's increasingly rare and valuable. For an employee with a family, the benefits below can add $28,000–$38,000 in annual value beyond base salary and bonus.

• Fully-paid healthcare. Medical, dental, and vision premiums are 100% covered for you, your spouse, and your dependents. Not 70%, not 80%...fully covered.
• Employer FSA contribution. We contribute to your Health FSA on top of paying premiums.
• Traditional pension. A defined-benefit pension plan, the kind that's nearly extinct in the private sector and provides greater retirement security.
• 3% 401(k) match. In addition to the pension, not instead of it.
• Generous PTO and paid holidays.
• Hybrid schedule with our DC-area office or remote work depending on your location.
• Professional development support, including Iterable certifications.
• Meaningful work on behalf of 15 million hard-working union members and their families.

If you've been comparing total compensation rather than just a base salary, we think you'll find Union Plus is very competitive.

Why This Role, Right Now

Most roles ask you to optimize what already exists. This one asks you to modernize an entire program — at meaningful scale, on a modern platform, with a leadership team that wants to make the change. We have the audience, the data, the platform and the support. We need someone who's excited to come build.

Union Plus is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.