American Red Cross

Lead Data Engineer

American Red Cross

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: FloridaIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $150,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, increase data accessibility, and foster 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.

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 cloud-based databases, specifically AWS technologies (e.g., Redshift (preferred), RDS, S3, EC2, EKS, Zero ETL)
  • Advanced experience using SQL queries as well as writing and optimizing SQL queries in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets.
  • Experience with a variety of database technologies and data warehouse schema design patterns (snowflake and star in particular).
  • Proficient in object-oriented programming (current hands on coding experience in Python is required).
  • Excellent data analysis and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Git, Artifactory, etc.).
  • Proficient in use of AI (Gitlab Duo, Gemini, or similar) for coding efficiency.
  • Experience in daily Engineering operations, support, and issue resolution.
  • Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Strong professionalism, interpersonal, written/verbal communication, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
  • Medical, Dental Vision plans
  • Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
  • PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
  • Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
  • 401K with up to 6% match
  • Paid Family Leave
  • Employee Assistance
  • Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
  • Service Awards and recognition
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
problem-solvingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationself-motivatedinterpersonal skillsprofessionalismteamworkcode reviewspair programming