Data Platform Engineer, Senior Associate in Boston, Massachusetts at The Housing Partnership Network

ABOUT THE ROLE

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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Engineering & Pipeline Management

• 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.

Data Analytics and Visualization

• 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.

Database Administration

• Administer, maintain, and optimize highly scalable and performance-oriented Azure SQL databases hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, ensuring high performance, availability, and security.
• Monitor, proactively address, and troubleshoot performance issues, query optimization, and capacity planning to ensure optimal database performance.
• Implement and manage database backup, recovery, patching, and security protocols aligned with best practices to safeguard data and ensure business continuity.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for all database systems, configurations, procedures, and processes, including source control tools and protocols.
• Adapt software engineering practices to data engineering, including Azure DevOps source control tools for CI/CD pipelines and protocols.
• Stay up to date with emerging database technologies and industry best practices including, semantic data modeling.

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.

LOCATION

HPN is a fully remote organization. Employees may work from anywhere in the contiguous 48 states while staying fully engaged with their team and the broader company through virtual collaboration tools and regular online meetings. Occasional travel is required for in-person meetings, conferences, or team-building events to foster strong relationships and ensure alignment with key initiatives. The ideal candidate should be prepared to work from their home, have a dedicated office, and be comfortable balancing virtual communication with the ability to travel as needed for business purposes.

COMPENSATION

Starting salary range is $111,200 to $125,100, commensurate with education and experience.

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!

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit a resume and cover letter. Selected candidates will be invited to complete a Skills Assessment, which is designed to evaluate qualifications relevant to position. The assessment is expected to take one to two hours to complete.

ABOUT HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK

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. We do this through practitioner-driven peer exchange to deliver creative housing policy, programs, and financing to our network members. Our vision is that all people live in vibrant, inclusive, healthy communities where access to safe, affordable, and sustainable homes creates opportunity, wealth building, and economic mobility.

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. The hallmark of HPN’s member‐driven approach is:

• Peer Exchange among the senior leaders of HPN member organizations who share knowledge and ideas to advance best practices in the field.
• Policy and Advocacy to strengthen the impact, scale, and sustainability of the sector.
• Innovation R&D is borne from ideas surfaced through peer exchange which HPN staff explore and test.
• Social Enterprises that HPN and members develop together are launched to address current affordable housing and community development challenges and advance innovative solutions.

Learn more at www.housingpartnership.net.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

HPN is committed to creating a diverse and equitable environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. HPN recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status and other protected status.