Lead Data Engineer

Flight Safety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Flight Safety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

The position plays a key role in providing technical leadership and direction for the development and maintenance of enterprise analytics deliverables, including but not limited operational data stores, data integrations and reports. The ideal candidate will be guide a team in a mixed technology environment to deliver data products providing decision support for business and customers. As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with technical and business resources within and outside of IT organization.

The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated and passionate technologist who is interested in practicing current skills and learning new ones.

This role is a highly technical and leadership position with responsibility to deliver, maintain and oversee data engineering components to meet the business objectives. The following duties are essential to the successful and satisfactory performance of this job. Other duties may be assigned.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical direction and oversight to a team of data engineers and developers.
• Set standards for data engineering best practices, code quality, and documentation.
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing.
• Lead code and design reviews to ensure adherence to established standards

Design:

• Partner with Business Stakeholders, Business Analysts, Data Engineers, Developers to design enterprise data warehouse components.
• Provide estimations, schedules and regular and timely updates to project managers & senior management as needed.
• Improve operations by conducting system analysis, recommending changes in policies and procedures

Develop/Validate:

• Oversee and validate proposed design for accuracy and completeness of business use cases.
• Lead the development of data integration and transformation solutions to meet the input needs of the models.
• Guide the development and support batch jobs.
• Perform unit & regression testing.
• Perform code/peer reviews to ensure adherence to established design & development standards.
• Collaborate with development and quality assurance teams for testing and product quality improvements as needed.
• Produce deployment scripts, checklists, playbook & operations runbook in accordance with SDLC & change management requirements

Deploy/Support:

• Oversee the deployment of database & data engineering components to higher environments, using CI/CD automation where applicable.
• Take measure to ensure adherence to committed service level agreements.
• Monitor the scheduled to jobs & performance of the platform for smooth operation.
• Independently and with support from other developers, troubleshoot and fix issues that arise with data and/or processes.
• Serve as techno-functional expert and assist developers and users in understanding data flow and application data

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (prefer CS major)
• 10+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of enterprise ETL, analytics & reporting…