Principal Data Engineer
Vibes helps brands unlock new revenue by arming them with the technology and expertise they need to succeed in mobile marketing.
We are a group of passionate technologists, intent on solving hard problems in the evolving world of mobile engagement. We focus on collaboration and continuous improvement of our products and ourselves. Our current initiatives are heavily focused on improving user experience and evolving our cloud-based applications and systems.
You are a technology expert with 10 or more years of deep experience, passionate about building highly scalable data solutions, coaching and mentoring others, and excited about having a significant impact within the Technology organization by providing technical leadership for our data and analytics team. You’ve architected data pipelines to scale, are a test-driven practitioner, advocate for automated pipelines, and are seeking an opportunity to work on cloud-based ETL pipelines with a passionate team.
This position will report to the Senior Director, Data & Analytics.
Basic Requirements:
- Natural people leader, excited to coach and mentor others, significantly impacting their career growth in a positive manner
- Excellent interpersonal and cross functional interactions
- Evangelizes internally and externally to help elevate the data pipelines and warehouse, establishing oneself as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities
- Builds awareness, increases knowledge, and drives adoption of modern technologies and architecture patterns, sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
- Deep understanding of ETL processes and cloud-based infrastructures
- Thought leader for leveraging data in intelligent ways to enhance the customer experience
- Data pipeline experience in setting up systems that enable data scientists to quickly build, test, and optimize models
- Data modeling experiences for analytic ecosystems
- Expertise in programming languages, preferably Python
- Experience in building reusable frameworks for data ingestion and streaming analytic solutions using technologies such as Kinesis, Kafka or Apache Spark
Significant Experience:
- Developing data pipelines using Airflow or similar technologies
- Designing and developing data storage systems using Snowflake
- Knowledge of multiple ETL technologies, including traditional RDBMS and structure-less solutions
- Knowledge of standard source code control systems: Git, subversion, etc.
- AWS Cloud-based architectures
- Creating an environment for Data Scientists to build models
Our Core Values
- Respect, Honesty, and Integrity for All Stakeholders
- Always be Learning
- Relentless Focus on the Customer
- Never be Satisfied
- Create Value
- Seek Accountability and Ownership
Vibes is an equal opportunity employer that encourages and fosters diversity in the workplace. We offer a career building experience in a fast-paced organization and industry.