Senior Data Engineer

What this job can offer you

• Playing a key role in Data Platform Development & Maintenance:
  • Managing and maintaining the organization's data platform, ensuring its stability, scalability, and performance.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to understand their data requirements and optimize data storage and access, while protecting data integrity and privacy.
  • Development and testing architectures that enable data extraction and transformation to serve business needs.
• Improving further our Data Pipeline & Monitoring Systems:
  • Designing, developing, and deploying efficient Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) processes to acquire and integrate data from various sources into the data platform.
  • Identifying, evaluating, and implementing tools and technologies to improve ELT pipeline performance and reliability.
  • Ensuring data quality and consistency by implementing data validation and cleansing techniques.
  • Implementing monitoring solutions to track the health and performance of data pipelines and identify and resolve issues proactively.
  • Conducting regular performance tuning and optimization of data pipelines to meet SLAs and scalability requirements.
• Dig deep into DBT Modelling:
  • Designing, developing, and maintaining DBT (Data Build Tool) models for data transformation and analysis.
  • Collaboration with Data Analysts to understand their reporting and analysis needs and translate them into DBT models, making sure they respect internal conventions and best practices.
• Driving our Culture of Documentation:
  • Creating and maintaining technical documentation, including data dictionaries, process flows, and architectural diagrams.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Data Analysts, SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) and Software Engineers, to understand their data requirements and deliver effective data solutions.
  • Sharing knowledge and offer mentorship, providing guidance and advice to peers and colleagues, creating an environment that empowers collective growth

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering; high-growth tech company experience is a plus
• Strong experience with building data extraction/transformation pipelines (e.g. Meltano, Airbyte) and orchestration platforms (e.g. Airflow)
• Strong experience in working with SQL, data warehouses (e.g. Redshift) and data transformation workflows (e.g. dbt)
• Solid experience using CI/CD (e.g. Gitlab, Github, Jenkins)
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Metabase) is considered a plus
• A self-starter mentality and the ability to thrive in an unstructured and fast-paced environment
• You have strong collaboration skills and enjoy mentoring
• You are a kind, empathetic, and patient person
• Writes and speaks fluent English
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus