Required Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant areas
- At least 3 years of of experience in a Data Engineer role
- Experience with relational SQL databases, including Postgres and MySQL.
- Experience with large-scale data Cloud Data Platforms and workflow management tools: Airflow, Luigi, Azkaban, etc
- Knowledge of Cloud Data Platform’s best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
- Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages, Python, Java, GoLang
- Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ pipelines, architectures and datasets
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
Skills & Competencies:
- Must be able to effectively communicate complex strategy and logic to different audiences and skill levels within the organization, from end users to C-Level executives
- Constantly improve data quality, security, and performance
- Ability to demonstrate exceptional organizational skills and strong attention to detail
- Desire to continually keep up with advancements in data engineering practices
- Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrate an aptitude and enthusiasm for learning
- A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Empathetic listening skills and a desire to continuously improve and grow
- Strong organizational skills
- Near-perfect problem solving and system design skills
- Agile oriented; focused on delivery and customer first
- Adaptive; responsive for on-demand changes
- Dedicated; working hard to finish tasks on-time with high quality
- Communicative; calling before sending e-mail
- Open; collecting feedbacks and defining actions for self-improvement
- Good command of written and spoken English is a plus
