Principal Data & Analytics Engineer

As the Principal Data & Analytics Engineer, you will serve as the senior technical leader for Curaleaf’s modern data and analytics ecosystem. You will define and evolve the architecture, engineering standards and shared platform capabilities that enable trusted, scalable and reusable data products across the organization. This is a hands-on individual-contributor and leadership role. You will work across Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Data Governance, and business-facing product teams. You will help connect Curaleaf’s data lifecycle from source ingestion through transformation, semantic delivery, advanced analytics and business consumption. You will partner closely with the Director of Data & Analytics, Senior Data Engineer, Senior Analytics Engineer and business product owners. Success will come not only from the solutions you build, but also from the technical clarity, reusable capabilities and engineering leverage you create for the entire team. This Principal engineering role will lead through technical direction, architecture, mentoring and cross-team influence rather than direct people management. Impact will be measured across systems and teams, not solely through individual code output.

What You’ll Do:

Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture across source ingestion, Snowflake, dbt, Omni, Hex, and related data services

Translate business strategy and product needs into scalable technical roadmaps, architectural patterns, and platform capabilities

Establish clear technology boundaries and guide where ingestion, transformation, semantic, reporting, and advanced analytical logic should reside

Architect secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Snowflake environments supporting data products, BI, self-service analytics, and data science

Partner with the Senior Data Engineer on workload management, access patterns, observability, performance, resource utilization, and production support

Lead technical strategies for environment management, data access, workload isolation, platform resilience, and ongoing optimization

Define standards for SQL, Python, dbt, ingestion pipelines, data modeling, testing, documentation, deployment, and version control

Advance Git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and engineering quality across the data lifecycle

Partner with business product owners, data stewards, Analytics Engineers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to design trusted and reusable data products

Lead root-cause reviews for significant incidents and convert recurring issues into durable platform or engineering improvements

Partner with data owners and stewards to implement quality expectations, ownership, lineage, classification, access, and appropriate-use requirements

Communicate architecture, risk, tradeoffs, and investment needs clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership

What You’ll Bring:

8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Platforms, or a closely related discipline

Demonstrated experience operating as a senior technical lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, architect, or equivalent individual contributor with influence across teams

Strong hands-on expertise with Snowflake, including data architecture, performance, security, workload management, access patterns, and cost optimization

Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong experience with Python for data engineering, automation, platform tooling, or analytical workflows

Significant experience with dbt or a comparable SQL-first transformation framework, including project architecture, testing, documentation, deployment, and reusable modeling patterns

Experience designing modern analytical data models, including staging layers, conformed dimensions, facts, curated marts, semantic models, and reusable data products

Strong knowledge of ingestion, ELT, orchestration, data contracts, schema evolution, data quality, lineage, and production-support practices

Experience with Git, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, environment management, and software-engineering practices applied to data systems

Experience defining architecture and technical standards while remaining sufficiently hands-on to build prototypes, solve complex problems, and guide implementation

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to business and executive audiences

Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical alignment without relying on formal people-management authority

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Even Better If:

Experience with dltHub or another modern ingestion framework.

Experience with Omni, Looker, or another governed semantic and business-intelligence platform.

What We Offer:

Career Growth Opportunities

Competitive Pay and Benefits

Generous PTO and Parental Leave

401(K) Retirement Plan

Life/ Disability Insurance

Community Involvement

Referral Bonuses and Product Discounts

Benefits vary by state, role type, and eligibility.

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Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing, and celebrating the power of the plant. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company, and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, Grassroots, Find, and Anthem provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. Curaleaf International is powered by a strong presence in all stages of the supply chain. Its unique distribution network throughout Europe, Canada and Australasia brings together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Home | Curaleaf | Cannabis with Confidence

Our Vision: To be the world's leading cannabis company by consistently delivering superior products and services and driving the global acceptance of cannabis.

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Individuals adversely impacted by the war on drugs are encouraged to apply.

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Please note that U.S. immigration rules and regulations are governed by federal law; not state law. Although Curaleaf operates in states that have legalized and decriminalized marijuana, it is still considered a controlled substance under federal regulations and thus illegal under federal law. For this reason, unless and until federal law changes, Curaleaf is prohibited from offering sponsorship for any non-immigrant or immigrant visas.

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