Data Platform Engineer, Senior Associate

Role Description

The Data Platform Engineer (DPE) will play a critical role in managing and advancing HPN’s data infrastructure and analytics ecosystem. This position sits at the intersection of database administration, data engineering, and business intelligence. You will be responsible for building and maintaining robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT), optimizing cloud-based data platforms, and enabling cross-functional teams with high-quality data and insightful reporting. This is not a traditional DBA role – it’s a hybrid position that combines cloud-native database management with hands-on data engineering and analytics support. You’ll directly partner with several teams to ensure data are accessible, reliable, and actionable.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a hybrid data engineering / Data Administrator role or similar.
• Experience with data lakes, Azure Databricks, Fivetran and Power Automate.
• Deep SQL expertise and familiarity with relational database architecture (especially Azure SQL).
• 1+ year of experience with Azure SQL; Azure Database Administrator Associate certification preferred.
• 2+ years of experience with Microsoft PowerBI Premium / Fabric.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps source/version control tool.
• Ability to write clean, reusable scripts in SQL and Python.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field preferred.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimum guidance while prioritizing workloads to meet goals.
• Collaborates well with others and works effectively in a team environment.

Requirements

• Build and maintain data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL/ELT) pipelines across systems (e.g., Salesforce, Excel, SharePoint, Azure SQL).
• Support integration of source systems with tools like Databricks, Python, Fivetran, and Power Automate to streamline data workflows.
• Ensure high performance and reliability of datasets used for operational and strategic reporting.
• Support the development of dashboards and reports in Power BI.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver usable insights.
• Maintain data definitions and documentation to support data literacy across the organization.
• Administer, maintain, and optimize highly scalable and performance-oriented Azure SQL databases hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Monitor, proactively address, and troubleshoot performance issues, query optimization, and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage database backup, recovery, patching, and security protocols aligned with best practices.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for all database systems, configurations, procedures, and processes.
• Adapt software engineering practices to data engineering, including Azure DevOps source control tools for CI/CD pipelines.
• Stay up to date with emerging database technologies and industry best practices including semantic data modeling.

Benefits

• 15 vacation days
• 12 sick days
• 12 paid holidays
• Paid personal day
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• Dependent care flexible spending account
• Retirement and savings plan/401(k) match
• Group life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Parental leave
• Sabbatical leave
• Professional development and much more!

Company Description

Housing Partnership Network (HPN) is an award-winning membership network of 100 of the nation’s leading affordable housing and community development nonprofits. The Housing Partnership Network’s mission is to leverage the individual strengths and mobilize the collective power of our member organizations to bring innovative solutions to America’s affordable housing and community development sectors.

Since our founding in 1992, HPN has collectively served over 12.8 million people; developed, rehabilitated, or preserved about 470,000 affordable homes; and launched 14 successful social enterprises. Our work has been recognized with honors including the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions and Wells Fargo NEXT Award for Opportunity Finance for its ongoing leadership and innovation in affordable housing and community development.

HPN represents a new breed of entrepreneurial nonprofit that combines a mission focus with business acumen to achieve ambitious social outcomes.