Staff Data Engineer

Join Workiva's GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) Enablement team to build the transactional data foundations that power our product teams. As a Staff Data Engineer, you'll own Postgres schema design, transactional data models, and the extraction layer that feeds our OLAP systems. You'll work alongside an OLAP specialist on this team (same manager) to jointly own GRC data outcomes end to end, transactional models through BI and history marts, and you'll partner closely with the platform data team on shared infrastructure and tooling. Your job is to make sure GRC product teams have data systems that are reliable, well-modeled, and easy to build against, and to raise the data fluency of engineers across the org.

This is a heavily hands-on role. You'll design schemas, define extraction and CDC patterns, and mentor engineers who need to write better queries and reason about relational data at scale. Together with the OLAP specialist on this team, you'll own the full data lifecycle for GRC: transactional models, BI marts, and history marts.

What you'll do

Transactional database design & operations

• Design, review, and evolve Postgres schemas for GRC product services, balancing normalization, query performance, and application ergonomics. • Set standards for indexing, constraints, partitioning, and connection pooling; identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in production. • Own migration strategy and tooling (schema changes, backfills, zero-downtime deploys) across…