Lead Data Engineer (Hybrid)

Purpose

The Lead Data Engineer is responsible for orchestrating, deploying, maintaining and scaling Cloud OR on-premise infrastructure targeting big data and platform data management (Relational and NoSQL, distributed and converged) with emphasis on reliability, automation and performance. This role will focus on leading the development of solutions and helping transform the company's platforms deliver data-driven, meaningful insights and value to company.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to design, configure, implement, monitor, and manage all aspects of Data Integration Framework.
• Defines and develop the Data Integration best practices for the data management environment of optimal performance and reliability.
• Develops and maintains infrastructure systems (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes) including data access APIs.
• Prepares and manipulates data using Hadoop or equivalent MapReduce platform.
• Provides detailed guidance and performs work related to Modeling Data Warehouse solutions in the Cloud OR on-premise.
• Understands Dimensional Modeling, De-normalized Data Structures, OLAP, and Data Warehousing concepts.
• Oversees the delivery of engineering data initiatives and projects.
• Supports long term data initiatives as well as Ad-Hoc analysis and ELT/ETL activities.
• Creates data collection frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
• Applies data extraction, transformation and loading techniques in order to connect large data sets from a variety of sources.
• Enforces the implementation of best practices for data auditing, scalability, reliability and application performance.
• Designs, manages, and conducts quality control procedures for data sets using data from multiple systems.
• Improves data delivery engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

Qualifications

• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or related field OR in lieu of a bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
• Experience: 8 years' Experience in leading data engineering and cross functional team to implement scalable and fine-tuned ETL/ELT solutions for optimal performance. Experience developing and updating ETL/ELT scripts. Hands-on experience with application development, relational database layout, development, data modeling.
• Preferred Qualifications: Proven hands-on experienced AWS Redshift Administrator to engineer, operate, secure, and optimize our cloud data warehouse platform.