Why The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism
FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filedProvides trustworthy local journalism to strengthen, unite, and inspire communities.
- The Venetoulis Institute is a nonprofit organization founded to bring high-quality Local Journalism to baltimore and maryland. In june 2022, we launched the baltimore banner to fulfill our mission. The banner is a multi-platform news operation covering a broad range…$25.4M spent in FY2024
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FY2024 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the orgAbout the role
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About the Role
The Banner is seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Data Engineer to help scale and mature our modern cloud-based data platform as we expand operations through the acquisition and integration of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This is a high-impact role focused on building scalable data pipelines, establishing strong data governance and engineering practices, and enabling trusted analytics across editorial, subscriptions, audience engagement, advertising, philanthropy, finance, and operations. You will play a critical role in consolidating fragmented reporting systems into a centralized, cloud-native data ecosystem.
Your work will help leaders and teams make faster, more informed decisions through reliable, accessible, and well-governed data. The ideal candidate is both a strong technical engineer and a pragmatic systems thinker. You are comfortable working across business and technical teams, designing sustainable data foundations, and solving complex problems in a fast-moving digital media environment. What You’ll Do Data Platform and Pipeline Engineering Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines on AWS. Develop robust ETL and ELT workflows that integrate data from multiple operational systems.
Expand and evolve our existing AWS-based data lake architecture to support multi-organization analytics and reporting. Standardize ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving layers across acquired systems and platforms. Contribute to architecture decisions and long-term data platform strategy. Build reliable, reusable, and well-documented data assets that support analytics, reporting, and operational decision-making. Acquisition and Systems Integration Lead data integration work related to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette systems and reporting infrastructure. Centralize fragmented reporting pipelines and migrate ad hoc reporting processes into governed, enterprise-grade workflows.
Create scalable mechanisms for aligning KPIs, metrics, definitions, and operational reporting across organizations. Partner with technical and business teams to understand source systems, reporting needs, and integration priorities. Help establish a durable data foundation that supports organizational growth and future acquisitions or integrations. Data Governance, Quality, and Reliability Establish data governance frameworks, lineage, quality checks, observability, and operational standards. Implement monitoring, alerting, validation, and recovery mechanisms for critical data pipelines. Improve data reliability, consistency, documentation, discoverability, and trust.
Define and promote engineering best practices for data ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Identify and resolve data quality issues in partnership with analytics, technology, and business stakeholders. Analytics Enablement Partner closely with analytics, product, editorial, marketing…
About The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism
From its Form 990- Budget $27.3M · Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Staff 15 · founded 2021
- Pays its leaders $227K–$481K (12 reported)
- Open jobs 6 · Jobs at The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism · Full 990 report