Lead Data Engineer

About the role

Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join our team in Atlanta, GA. This role involves designing and delivering leading-edge software products for our customers, serving as a technical leader in a collaborative team environment, and contributing to the engineering efforts of data scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Engineer right-sized solutions for complex business problems focused on building patterns to support data pipelines, data warehousing, and data transformations.
• Apply knowledge of modern software design, best practices, design patterns, and frameworks, with an understanding of application performance and maintainability.
• Use new technologies and develop innovative solutions.
• Perform data analytics, database design and development.
• Influence technical solutions while coaching newer or junior members on Scrum team.
• Construct and manage services which extract data from disparate databases, transform the data and load into data warehouse.
• Collaborate with team members on best practices, code reviews, internal tools and process improvements.
• Develop high performing, scalable and secure solutions.
• Diagnose, design, and implement solutions to key technology or application problems.
• Investigate, evaluate, and present new emerging technologies for use with data solutions and integrations.
• Mentor and assist other engineers in area of ownership and expertise.
• Design and maintain data pipelines and databases.
• Translate business requirements, data mappings into data integrations and ingestions code solutions.
• Recommend and code efficient and effective data integration and ingestion solutions for challenging problems.
• Work closely with product managers and engineers to design, implement, test, and continually improve scalable data solutions and services running on DBT & Snowflake cloud platforms.
• Implement system data integration and ingestion fixes for the data platform and environment.
• Ensure root cause resolution to identified problems.
• Monitor and support the Data Solutions jobs and processes to meet the daily SLA.
• Lead team on Data Integration solutions.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field and 6 years of experience working in data engineering.
• Must have 6 years of experience in each of the following:
• Building and deploying large-scale data processing pipelines;
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing ETL processes;
• Designing and implementing scalable data pipelines;
• Performing programming and scripting in SQL, PL/SQL, and Python;
• Automating using Python;
• Performing ETL and data warehousing using Informatica PowerCenter for ETL processes, as well as Exadata and on-premise data warehouse solutions;
• In lieu of a bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience as stated, the employer will accept a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience as stated, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated.
• Must also have 1 year of experience:
• Warehousing cloud data in Snowflake;
• Performing data transformation and modeling in dbt (Data Build Tool) and schema design, including star schema;
• Developing data pipelines, including ETL/ELT pipeline development, using dBT Labs and ELT tool.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in data engineering.

Skills

• Knowledge of modern software design, best practices, design patterns, and frameworks.
• Understanding of application performance and maintainability.
• Experience with new technologies and developing innovative solutions.
• Experience with data analytics, database design and development.
• Experience influencing technical solutions and coaching team members on Scrum.
• Experience constructing and managing services which extract data from disparate databases, transform the data and load into data warehouse.
• Experience collaborating with team members on best practices, code reviews, internal tools and process improvements.
• Experience developing high performing, scalable and secure solutions.
• Experience diagnosing, designing, and implementing solutions to key technology or application problems.
• Experience investigating, evaluating, and presenting new emerging technologies for use with data solutions and integrations.
• Experience mentoring and assisting other engineers in area of ownership and expertise.
• Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines and databases.
• Experience translating business requirements, data mappings into data integrations and ingestions code solutions.
• Experience recommending and coding efficient and effective data integration and ingestion solutions for challenging problems.
• Experience working closely with product managers and engineers to design, implement, test, and continually improve scalable data solutions and services running on DBT & Snowflake cloud platforms.
• Experience implementing system data integration and ingestion fixes for the data platform and environment.
• Experience ensuring root cause resolution to identified problems.
• Experience monitoring and supporting the Data Solutions jobs and processes to meet the daily SLA.
• Experience leading team on Data Integration solutions.

Benefits

• Compensation includes a base salary of $160,056-$183,326.
• The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations;
• seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year;
• up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

Pay

• $160,056 - $183,326

Schedule

• Full-time