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What you'll do
- Help shape the technical direction of a domain within the Data@ organization.
- Build a reliable and scalable single source of truth core model data product for internal and external analytics and enable self-service.
- Partner with product, data analyst, engineering teams and other data engineers to translate business requirements into data models with measurable transformation quality under SLA.
- Develop and automate large-scale, high-performance data processing systems and visualization to ensure reliability and meet critical business requirements.
- Lead data engineering projects, and overall strategy for data governance, security, privacy, quality, and retention.
- Mentor data engineers and continue promoting data engineering and analytics tooling & standards.
What we look for
- 7+ years of experience in data modeling, data architecture, and other areas directly relevant to data engineering.
- Technical leadership; capable of handling mentorship, cross functional project execution, and solid individual contributions.
- Advanced SQL, ETL pipelines, Data modeling & design, SQL performance tuning in OLAP and Data Warehouse/Data Lake environments
- Proficiency with programming languages (e.g. Python) and Data Warehouse technologies (NoSQL, logging, columnar, Snowflake, etc.), Big Data technologies (e.g Hadoop, Spark, etc.), analytics (Looker, Tableau, etc.)
- Familiar with data governance frameworks and Agile methodology
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; able to effectively collaborate with technical and business partners.
- Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset.
- BS/MS degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
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