This role is for one of the Weekdays clients
Responsibilities
Data Strategy and Alignment
- Collaborate with data analysts and business/product teams to understand requirements and deliver data ready for analysis and reporting.
- Establish define and advocate for data governance including data quality testing documentation coding best practices and peer reviews.
- Continuously source transform test deploy and document data models and data sources.
- Work closely with the infrastructure team to enhance and optimize the data infrastructure.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive data roadmap staying attuned to industry trends and advancements.
Data Stores and System Development
- Design and implement scalable highperformance and reusable data models for the data warehouse ensuring endusers get consistent and reliable answers during analysis.
- Focus on testdriven design to deliver repeatable and maintainable processes and tools.
- Create and maintain an optimal data pipeline architecture and data flow logging framework.
- Build data products features tools and frameworks that empower data and analytics teams.
Project Management
- Lead project by prioritizing effectively and allocating resources efficiently.
- Address and resolve technical blockers through expertise negotiation and delegation.
- Ensure timely project completion by facilitating standups and making necessary course corrections.
Team Management
- Lead and mentor a team of 58 members fostering growth and development.
- Conduct regular oneonones to ensure the wellbeing of the team.
- Provide periodic assessments and actionable feedback for improvement.
- Recruit and onboard new team members with a focus on longterm resource planning collaborating closely with the hiring team.
Process Design
- Set the standard for the quality of technical and datadriven solutions produced by the team.
- Enforce code quality standards and promote effective code review practices as a tool for growth.
- Establish communication channels and feedback loops for knowledge sharing and stakeholder management.
- Explore and implement the latest best practices and tools to continuously upskill the team.
Data Engineering Stack
- Analytics: Python R SQL Excel PPT Google Colab
- Database: PostgreSQL Amazon Redshift DynamoDB Aerospike
- Warehouse: Snowflake S3
- ETL: Airflow DBT Custom Python solutions Amundsen (Discovery)
- Business Intelligence/Visualization: Metabase Google Data Studio
- Frameworks: Spark Dash Streamlit
- Collaboration: Git Notion
Requirements
- Minimum of 9 years of industry experience with at least 5 years in a data engineering role.
- Proven experience managing a team of 4 or more developers endtoend.
- Strong handson expertise in data modeling and data warehousing.
- Solid technical background with the ability to contribute to design and review processes.
- Strong experience applying software engineering best practices to data and analytics including version control testing and CI/CD.
- Exceptional attention to detail especially regarding data quality issues.
- Excellent time management and proactive problemsolving skills to meet critical deadlines.
- Familiarity or expertise with the listed analytics stack or similar tools and frameworks.
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