# Senior Data Engineer at Hearst

> Hybrid · United States · Senior · Data engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Ahearst%3A4466296009 (read 2026-11-07).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Hearst](https://alderhq.app/companies/hearst)
- Location text: Troy, MI, United States; Troy
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · United States (evidence: "Location: Troy, MI, United States; Troy")
- Posted: 2026-10-26 (12 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 1 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hearst/jobs/4466296009
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Spark, SQL, LLMs

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (United States, n 146): p25 $164k, median $185k, p75 $205k

## Description (the employer's text)

### The Opportunity

Help modernize the data platform behind the automotive aftermarket. As Senior Data Engineer at MOTOR Information Systems, you’ll take a leading role in architecting, designing, building and evolving our AWS-based data platform, supporting the next generation of products and AI-driven capabilities.

This is not a maintenance role. You’ll have meaningful technical ownership and influence over how data is architected, processed and delivered across our systems and product suite. You’ll tackle large-scale, complex data challenges while driving architectural decisions, establishing engineering best practices and designing for scalability, reliability, performance and cost efficiency. As a senior member of the team, you’ll collaborate across engineering and product, provide technical guidance and mentorship, and help shape our platform toward a more modern, scalable and intelligent data architecture.

Hybrid: This hybrid role is based in our Troy, Michigan office and requires working in the office 3 days per week.

No visa sponsorship is available at this time.

### What You’ll Do

- Analyze large and complex data sets.
- Design, develop and coordinate the generation of data pipelines.
- Work collaboratively with the team to plan and solve complex problems.
- Design for, or optimize existing pipelines for, performance and cost.
### What You’ll Bring

### Required Qualifications

- Expert Python and SQL developer.
- Strong AWS experience (Lambda, Glue, State Machines, Fargate, CloudFormation, Redshift).
- Strong experience with semi-structured data (XML, CSV, JSON, Parquet).
- Strong automation experience.
- Experience with Databricks (Delta Lake, Notebooks, SQL Analytics).
- Experience with Kubernetes (cluster orchestration, container networking, pod management).
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD and deployment orchestration (Octopus Deploy).
- Experience with agentic AI (LangGraph, MCP servers, agent frameworks).
- Experience with data handling (Pandas/NumPy, Apache Spark, Ray).
### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with LLMs, machine learning and deep learning libraries, AI application frameworks and vector databases.
- Experience with automotive data or the automotive industry.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum.
### Benefits

As part of Hearst, MOTOR employees have access to modern, flexible benefits designed to support you and your family. Benefits include:

- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Emotional wellness support
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- LGBTQ+ health services
- Additional benefits to meet you and your family’s needs

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