Senior Data Engineer

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll engage in the design, development, and maintenance of data platforms and solutions. This includes applying data management principles to pipelines and delivering analytical and operational solutions to enable data-driven decision-making and data activation use cases.

You’ll design and develop data ingestion and transformation solutions, working across a hybrid data environment to build scalable products and services that meet business needs. As a senior member of the team, you’ll also mentor and support the growth of your teammates while helping drive best practices across the data engineering lifecycle.

About the role Develop ETL and ELT processes to source and curate data from various enterprise systems, ensuring speed and quality of delivery

Develop tabular and dimensional data models to support analytical and operational use cases

Build and maintain data processing jobs to refresh data on a regular cadence

Guide the identification, investigation, and resolution of data quality issues, ensuring data is secure and reliable

Utilize advanced debugging techniques to troubleshoot complex data pipeline and processing issues

Lead code review sessions with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability

Work in a hybrid data environment spanning on-premises and cloud data platforms

Develop relational and non-relational data models to meet user and business needs

Proactively identify upstream and downstream dependencies that may impact pipeline performance or reliability

Monitor and address performance and scalability issues across large-scale data platforms

Participate in on-call rotations for incident management and production support

Mentor team members and contribute to their technical development

Partner with leadership to identify and address technical debt and improve team processes

Stay current on industry trends and promote adoption of best practices across the team Contribute to engineering community initiatives to increase visibility into data engineering work

Aboutyou

Minimum Qualifications 7 years of experience building data solutions, including relational and non-relational databases and batch/real-time data pipelines using cloud services5 years of experience with dimensional or tabular data modeling

Experience designing and developing complex data transformation pipelines5 years of experience with CI/CD and automated deployments

Expertise writing complex queries (SQL/No

SQL)
Expertise in performance tuning, debugging, and troubleshooting data processing jobs, including ETLs5 years of experience in Python development, including AWS Lambda functions

Proficiency in a functional or object-oriented programming language

Strong understanding of database and server internals

Knowledge of Linux system administration, shell scripting, and basic networking

Experience developing and consuming REST APIsPreferred Qualifications Degree (or equivalent experience) in computer science, information technology, or a related field

Knowledge of disaster recovery and backup strategies for data systems

Experience mentoring and developing other engineers

What you’ll getOur team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind.

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