LTK’s Data department is an integral component of the company’s Central Technology mission, playing a key role in the organization’s general data-driven transformation. As a Data Engineering Manager, you will be a technical manager within a growth-hungry, acceleration-minded team of problem-solvers and product-builders. We thrive in an extremely dynamic competitive environment, focusing relentlessly on the needs of our different customers (brands, creators, and consumers). We seek thought-partners who can collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and marketing teams to deliver quality solutions rapidly. Responsibilities:
- Provide technical and project leadership for the Data Engineering team;
- Analyze existing and upcoming requirements for data platform;
- Participate in design and lead implementation of data engineering strategies for operational solutions and services
- Support Data engineering team with daily maintenance and improvements of existing LTK Data platform
- Mentor and develop the technical skills of more junior data engineers of LTK Data engineering team
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical users to understand requirements, define objectives, and measure results
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor data engineers with varying focus areas
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or a related field, + at least 6 years of relevant experience; Master’s preferred
- Experience building and managing a team of Data engineers
- Expert proficiency with Scala or Python and Spark; Databricks knowledge is a plus
- Profound knowledge of AWS Data services (eg: Redshift, S3, EMR, Glue, RDS, Kinesis, and so on)
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience with agile development required
- Fierce attention to detail
- Experience working with off-/near-shore development teams preferred
- Excellent communication skills
What's in it for you?
- Interesting problems to solve
- Competitive comp and benefits including medical, dental, and vision
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Wellness benefits including workout from home with our live Virtual Fitness Classes!
- 401k retirement plan with LTK matching contribution
- Flexible work schedule plus Summer Fridays (Workday ends at 3pm)
- Virtual Company Happy Hours and Virtual Team Events!
- Disrupting the retail industry!
What you have to look forward to when you work or visit for team huddles at a LTK Office:
- Fully stocked bars and kitchen (free snacks all day!)
- Catered meals weekly
- Monthly Chair massages
- Laidback office environment
- Monthly themed Happy Hours!
- Free access to state of the art gym while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
- Free Covered Parking on-site while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
About Us
LTK is the largest global influencer marketing platform. Founded in 2011 by Amber Venz Box and Baxter Box, the company’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle creators to be as economically successful as possible.
Now in its 10th year, LTK has grown to become a three-sided marketplace, serving creators, brands and shoppers. In November 2021, LTK announced a $300 million investment by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that values the company at $2 billion.
LTK is the most trusted and effective business-enablement platform for creators, powering their universal LTK Creator Shops™. More than 5,000 retailers employ the LTK Brand Platform for performance-driven campaigns, paid collaborations and content licensing, and invested more than $1 billion in influencer marketing through the LTK platform by summer 2021.
Shoppers purchase more than $3 billion in products annually on the LTK platform and app. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX with teams in the UK, Brazil, France, Germany, Australia, China and South Korea and clients in more than 100 countries.
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