Lead design discussions around data architecture, modeling strategy, and platform evolution
Identify opportunities to simplify and scale the data platform
Drive improvements to data reliability, observability, and data quality
Establish and promote best practices for data modeling, testing, and code review
Help the team prioritize work and balance speed with technical quality
Develop and optimize ETL processes
Integrate data sources across a broad product portfolio to provide stakeholders access to key information they need to excel at their job
Mentor other data engineers
Challenge how business use cases fit together and fit into our product
Determine and proactively communicate future impacts of proposed or ongoing work
Help the team mitigate any issues that arise in their product and its ecosystem
Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting facilitating data access for our BI tools and analytical reporting
Provide technical guidance to help Data Engineering evolve access to data platform
Work with engineering to integrate tracking of new functionality into the data ecosystem
Optimize the performance of business-critical queries
Explain why the projects their team is working on have been prioritized over other projects

Requirements

7+ years of data engineering experience
Experience with data warehouses and large-scale analytics systems (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and data platforms
Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
Experience building and maintaining relational as well as document, key-value, and other noSQL databases
Advanced Python & SQL skills
Experience working with third-party APIs for data integration
Experience with business process automation
Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field (or similar combination of education and experience)
Spark and Redshift experience (PySpark preferred)
Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, etc.)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
Experience with event or streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
CI/CD experience

Benefits

Health Insurance Coverage: We offer our 8Team a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit your needs, including a 100% company-paid HDHP plan for employees.
Financial perks: We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including annual bonuses, equity options and 401(k) or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match for all team members.
Time for what matters: Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, and a parental leave program for our new parents.
Wellness: Wellness stipends, mental health support, and one-on-one nutrition coaching.
Learning and Development: Continuous learning through 8am.edu, leadership programs, professional development funds, and individually focused talent development.
Giving back to the communities around us: Participate in our charitable matching gift program, paid time off for volunteer service, and company-sponsored volunteer events (both local and virtually).
Engagement: Virtual and in-person team-building events, quarterly award recognition through our Rise & Shine Award of Excellence Program, and our peer-to-peer appreciation platform.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringdata architecturedata modelingETL processesPythonSQLnoSQL databasesworkflow orchestrationInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingprioritization