Senior Lead Software Development Engineer, AI-Enabled Data Platform

What You'll Do At Avalara, we build cloud-based software that helps businesses manage sales tax and other transaction tax compliance. As a Senior Lead Software Development Engineer, you will lead the architecture and delivery of Avalara’s AI-enabled data platform, creating trusted semantic models, scalable pipelines, AI-driven data quality frameworks, and production-grade large language model workflows. This is a senior individual contributor role in a player-coach model, with hands-on work across Snowflake, Snowflake Cortex, dbt, SQL, Python, Airflow, AWS, and AI-native data pipeline design. You will turn complex analytics and AI outcomes into clear insights that influence strategy, improve customer-facing products, and support enterprise decision-making. You will be reporting to Senior Manager, Software Engineering. This is a #LI-Remote role. What Your Responsibilities Will Be Lead architecture and hands-on delivery of AI-enabled data platform capabilities that support customer produ...