Data Engineering Senior Manager
Avant is dedicated to building premier digital banking solutions for the middle class through a combination of technology, analytics and superior customer service. Since 2012, Avant has connected over 1.5 million customers to over $7.5 billion in loans and 700,000 credit cards. A high growth financial technology company, Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com for more information.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Avant is looking for a Data Services Senior Manager to scale our big data infrastructure. Avant relies on our enterprise Data Lake to report performance to investors, make staffing decisions, and build credit and marketing models to drive the growth of our business.
This is a high impact position where you’ll work across Tech and with senior management to define requirements, manage priorities, and drive projects to completion. We’re looking for an engineering manager who fosters a collaborative work environment, has a strong focus on quality, and sets their team up for success.
What you might own at Avant:
- Proactively drive the technical vision for our enterprise Data Lake
- Lead the engineering team in deploying infrastructure and developing software through pair programming, code review, and architecture guidance
- Manage the performance of the team, including 1:1s, performance reviews, goal setting, and professional development
- Provide guidance to other teams on business and technical data projects
- Collaborate with DevOps, Production Engineering, and SRE to achieve operational excellence in system reliability, quality, and delivery
- Stay informed about new technologies and trends in the data space
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- 6+ years of relevant engineering experience and 2+ year of technical management experience
- Experience with technologies like Spark, Hive, Dremio, and Airflow
- Experience with the AWS ecosystem
- Experience with Python
- Data modeling experience preferred
- Scala or Java experience preferred
Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.
Avant is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, disability or genetic information or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law, regulation or ordinance.