Senior Engineer, Data Engineering

Role : Data Engineer

Remote opportunity.

The mission of the business intelligence team is to create a data-driven culture that empowers leaders to integrate data into daily decisions and strategic planning. We aim to provide visibility, transparency, and guidance regarding the quantity and quality of results, activities, financial KPIs, and leading indicators to identify trends aimed at data-based decision-making easily.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, architecting, and implementing robust data solutions in a cloud-based environment (GCP). You will partner with other data engineers and technical teams to ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of our data systems.

Programming & Code Writing

Architect and build complex data pipelines using advanced cloud data technologies

Lead efforts to optimize data pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency

Define industry best practices for building data pipelines

Ensure data security, compliance, and governance standards are met.

Partner with leadership team to define and implement agile and DevOps methodologies

Serve as subject matter expert and define data architecture and infrastructure requirements

Partner with business analysts to plan project execution including appropriate product and technical specifications, direction, resources, and establishing realistic completion times

Understand data technology trends and identify opportunities to implement new technologies and provide forward-thinking recommendations

Design and implement a robust data observability process

Troubleshoot, and provide technical guidance to resolve issues related to misaligned or inaccurate data or data fields or new customer requirements

Maintain new release, migration, and sprint schedules for software upgrades, enhancements, and fixes to aid with product evolution

Write QA/QC Scripts to conduct first round of testing and partner with BA team for test validation for new developments prior to moving to production

Document standard ways of working via QRGs, intranet pages, and video series

Drive day-to-day development activities of development team in close collaboration with on-site and off-shore resources, scrum masters and product owners

Bootstrapping a data engineering team at an early stage in the team's evolution

Guide, mentor and coach offshore resources

Provide input in forming a long-term data strategy

Master's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or related field, highly preferred

Experience

Extensive knowledge of BI concepts and related technologies that help drive sustainable technical solutions

Extensive Experience with data lakes, ETL and data warehouses

Advanced experience of building data pipelines

Passion for building quality BI software

Project Management and/or process improvement experience highly preferred

Polyglot coder and expert level in multiple languages including, Python, R, Java, SQL, relational databases, ERP, DOMO or other data visualization tools i.e. Tableau

Advanced and proven experience with Google cloud platform (GCP) is preferred. But experience with Microsoft Azure / Amazon will be considered.

Expert level understanding of data engineering

Proactive leadership, project management, time management, and problem-solving skills

Extensive experience with data analysis , modeling, and data pipelining including data cleaning, standardizing, scaling, tuning, scheduling and deployment

Experience composing detailed technical documentation and procedures for data models

Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, tasks, and meeting deadlines while maintaining quality

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