Director of Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of talented data engineers responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure platform.
• Develop and execute comprehensive data strategy aligned with business goals and objectives collaborating with technical leads and product managers on prioritization and roadmap plans.
• Establish and enforce data governance policies and best practices. Implement and maintain processes to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Conduct data discovery activities, performing root cause analysis and making recommendations for the remediation of data quality issues.
• Understand business and technical requirements, provision of subject matter expertise and implementation of data engineering techniques
• Establish and maintain performance monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting mechanisms to ensure the reliability and availability of our data infrastructure platform.
• Work cross-functionally to prioritize work items, track progress, and deliver commitments. Collaborate extensively with data science and analytics teams to design data platform(s) that support their needs and deliverables.
• Directly contribute to the entire development cycle, from conception and design through release, reporting and analytics.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years of leadership/experience managing highly technical teams.
• Strong technical background in data engineering, data pipelines, ETL, data modeling, and data architecture
• Required experience with Snowflake, dbt, AWS
• Demonstrated experience in high quality data handling - tracking lineage, proactive monitoring, data governance, and improving discoverability of data.
• Demonstrated experience in project management and tools such as Jira.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Prominent track record delivering high visibility projects on time and budget

Qualifications

Physical Demands:

• Working in a temperature-controlled office environment
• Sitting at a desk for long periods of time while viewing multiple computer screen monitors
• Potential lifting of boxes around 5-10lbs

Benefits

FairSquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Growing, successful company preparing to almost double in size over the next three years. Positive, energetic, passionate, business casual environment with management who committed to your success. Fantastic benefits package including a 401(k) match. Numerous employee events throughout the year, including our annual traditions such as a Day at the Del Mar Racetrack, Holiday Party, Concerts & Sporting Events and more. Serving the small business community. Since 1999, we have provided more than $3 billion in funding to over 50,000 customers to support their working capital and equipment financing needs. We are one of the country's largest private providers of small business loans, having funded more than $3 billion to help small businesses grow. Our personal approach helps strengthen small business owners and we pride ourselves on being a resource they can trust. We are believers in small business owners.