About this role
Position: Data Engineer - Enterprise Products
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Department: Digital Experience
Reports To: Technology Lead, Enterprise Products
About Lincoln Center: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a global home for music, dance, theater, film, and culture. We steward a 16-acre campus in New York City, collaborate with world-renowned Resident Arts Organizations, and bring the arts to millions each year.
We are building a modern digital ecosystem that expands access to culture, strengthens audience relationships, and supports long-term sustainability. A unified, trusted data platform is foundational to this work enabling Lincoln Center to operate as a connected campus while respecting the autonomy, privacy, and unique missions of our partner organizations.
Role Overview: Lincoln Center is seeking a Data Engineer to help design, build, and operate an enterprise data platform that powers analytics, reporting, personalization, and future AI initiatives across the campus.
Sitting within the Enterprise Products area, this role focuses on shared platforms and systems that serve the entire organization. You will be responsible for building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient data pipelines and datasets on AWS that unify information from ticketing, CRM, fundraising, marketing, finance, and digital engagement systems.
You’ll collaborate closely with product, business development, marketing, finance, and external partners to ensure the data platform is reliable, governed, observable, and trusted across the institution.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS supporting batch and near-real-time data use cases.
- Ingest and process data using AWS-native services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and CloudWatch, alongside modern data tooling.
- Integrate data from enterprise systems including ticketing, CRM, fundraising, finance, marketing platforms, and web/app analytics.
- Develop dimensional and semantic data models in the warehouse that serve as trusted sources of truth across departments.
- Optimize data workflows for performance, reliability, and cost, including partitioning strategies, orchestration schedules, and compute usage.
- Implement data governance standards using AWS IAM and warehouse controls, including role-based access, masking, tagging, and metadata management.
- Partner with teams across Marketing, Business Development, Finance, and Programming to deliver high-impact data products such as cohorts, funnels, donor analytics, and event performance insights.
- Improve data quality and reliability through automated testing, monitoring, alerting, and clear data ownership.
- Reduce technical debt by automating manual processes, deprecating legacy pipelines, and standardizing data access patterns.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide data standards, documentation, and cloud best practices as the platform evolves.
Who You Are:
- A pragmatic, cloud-oriented data engineer who values reliability, clarity, and long-term maintainability.
- Comfortable designing and operating data systems in AWS production environments.
- Fluent in SQL and Python, with strong instincts for data modeling, performance tuning, and cost awareness.
- Deeply invested in data quality, security, and governance.
- Comfortable collaborating across teams and explaining technical concepts to non-technical partners.
- Motivated by building foundational platforms that enable teams to move faster and make better decisions.
- Energized by applying modern data practices in a multi-stakeholder, mission-driven environment.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data engineering or closely related roles.
- Strong SQL skills (CTEs, window functions, performance tuning) and solid Python experience for data processing and testing.
- Hands-on experience with AWS data services, including S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience working with modern data warehouses and transformation tools such as Snowflake and dbt.
- Experience designing dimensional and semantic models, incremental pipelines, and slowly changing dimensions.
- Working knowledge of data governance concepts including RBAC/ABAC, masking, tagging, and PII handling (GDPR/CCPA).
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow or AWS-native equivalents).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
Success Looks Like:
- Trusted, well-documented datasets adopted across Enterprise and departmental teams as sources of truth.
- High data reliability with strong test coverage, monitoring, and improving mean time to resolution.
- Measurable improvements in AWS data pipeline and warehouse cost efficiency.
- Faster time-to-insight enabled by standardized, governed data models.
- Clear contribution to audience growth, engagement, and fundraising effectiveness.
What is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA) is a cultural and civic cornerstone of New York City. We believe the arts play an important role in our lives: they nourish our hearts and minds, teach us valuable lessons and critical skills, and help us create community. We are resolved not to lose sight of what connects us, and we hope you will consider joining our talented, diverse team.
We are:
1. The manager of the 16-acre Lincoln Center campus
-We are one of eleven amazing resident arts organizations
2. A leading Arts Presenter.
-We curate numerous programs and performances, showcasing music, dance, and more
3. An Education Hub.
-We have reached 20 million students, educators, principals, and community members
Who are our people?
LCPA is a team of dreamers, collaborators, and entrepreneurs who use unique platforms in the heart of New York City and beyond to advocate for the transformative impact of artistic experiences.
Lincoln Center People imagine and create in concert with this mission by founding President John D. Rockefeller III - "The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center."
We welcome applicants from all sectors who agilely solve problems, show up as they are, and can't stop innovating.
What’s the news?
Recent and Upcoming Programming
- Lincoln Center Reveals 25/26 Season Featuring Jeanine Tesori as Visionary Artist
- Kyle Abraham's 20 Years of Urgency at Lincoln Center Rose Theatre
Campus Happenings
- Lincoln Center Gets $50 Million Gift to Promote Contemporary Dance
- The new JFK terminal will show iconic artworks from MoMA, the Met and Lincoln Center
Legacies of San Juan Hill
- WNYC: Lincoln Center Celebrates 'Legacies of San Juan Hill
- Lincoln Center Launches San Juan Hill Project Digital Hub To Remember the Lost Urban Neighborhood
Who is our President and CEO?
Dr. Mariko Silver
Join us!
It is the policy of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, marital or civil partnership/union status, familial or caregiver status, alienage or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, military or veteran status, genetic information, predisposition, or carrier status, unemployment status, domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking victim status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. LCPA is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.
If you require reasonable accommodation in locating open positions, completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Abigail Worsnip at (212) 875–5324.
Other facts
About LINCOLN CENTER
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) is a cultural and civic cornerstone of New York City. The primary advocate for the entire Lincoln Center campus, our strategic priorities include: fostering collaboration and deepening impact across the Lincoln Center resident organizations; championing inclusion and increasing the accessibility and reach of Lincoln Center’s work; and nurturing innovation on stage and off to help ensure the arts are at the center of civic life for all. LCPA presents hundreds of programs each year, offered primarily for free and choose-what-you-pay, including many specially designed for young audiences, families, and those with disabilities.
The 11 resident organizations include: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Film at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
**Campus photography by Mark Bussell
What you'll do
- The Data Engineer will design, build, and operate an enterprise data platform that supports analytics and reporting across Lincoln Center. Responsibilities include creating secure data pipelines and integrating data from various enterprise systems.
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