Data Platform 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 800,000 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.
Avant is looking for a Manager of Data Platform to join the team in Chicago.
What you might own at Avant:
- Product owner of our data platform, ensuring that data and business teams have the proper tools, programs, and policies to effectively manage and utilize data across the organization
- Ownership over the management and evaluation of key data vendors, including BI (Looker), data quality (Infogix), data catalog (Alation), data warehouse (Dremio), and data processing environment
- Manage our data quality program, ensuring that technical checks and anomaly detection are present across our most critical data sets; roll out smoke sheeting as part of pipeline development
- Reestablish and manage our data governance program with an emphasis on automated curation
- Build and manage business personas, ensuring that different classifications of business users have the ideal data experience based on their experience and use cases; develop and roll out data training programs
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- 4+ years of relevant data management experience and 2+ year of technical management experience
- 3+ years data modeling and architecture experience
- 3+ years managerial experience, proven leadership abilities
- Experience with the AWS ecosystem
- Experience with technologies like EC2, EMR, Spark, Airflow, and Dremio
- Experience with Looker, Alation, Infogix is preferred
- Detail oriented with strong organizational skills
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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.