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Lead Data Engineer
Company | American Red Cross |
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Location | Raleigh, NC, USA |
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Salary | $140000 – $150000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 4-year college degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prefer academic backgrounds in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field.
- 10 years of relevant work experience in data engineering, business intelligence or related field.
- Experience with a variety of database technologies and data warehouse schema design patterns (snowflake and star in particular).
- Experience with cloud-based databases, specifically AWS technologies (e.g., Redshift, RDS, S3, EC2, EKS, Zero ETL)
- Experience using SQL queries as well as writing and optimizing SQL queries in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets.
- Experience creating ETL and/or ELT jobs.
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Process oriented with great documentation skills.
- Proficient in object-oriented programming (Python is a must).
- Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Git, Artifactory, etc.).
- Experience developing in a Linux environment.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increasing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision making across the organization.
- Build and implement scalable solutions that align to our data governance standards and architectural roadmap for data integrations, data storage, reporting, and analytic solutions.
- Design, develop and test data integration solutions. Write, automate and document unit/integration/functional tests.
- Manage automated deployments using Git pipelines, ensuring code changes are efficiently version-controlled and deployed.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to streamline deployment workflows, monitor and troubleshoot pipelines for reliability and performance.
- Perform data analysis required to troubleshoot data-related issues by building a data quality framework and assist in the resolution of data issues.
- Serve as tech lead by mentoring less experienced members of the team through code reviews, pair programming and similar hands-on interactions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing integrations across multiple systems and APIs is a plus.
- Experience with Big Data tools like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc. is a plus.