Staff Data Engineer

Title: Staff Data Engineer

Role Description:

As a Staff Data Engineer at ShipBob, you will be a member of an Engineering team reporting to a Manager, and provide technical leadership to their team. You will be responsible for the team's technical delivery, and will be able to operate independently while being a subject matter expert in all of the team's domains.

What you’ll do:

• Architect and design high quality data pipelines from structured and unstructured data sources.
• Run and implement clean data engineering practices w.r.t data modeling, data marshaling and data warehousing.
• Constantly improving architecture and systems with key focus on data security, data consistency and performance.
• Guides and mentors a team of senior data engineers on the best practices, tools and frameworks and code reviews.
• As a hands-on leader, developing complex systems and modules on your own.
• Collaborating with engineering and product teams to address tech challenges and opportunities for building at scale.
• Accept feedback gracefully and learn from everything the team does.
• Breaks down large projects having a moderate level of ambiguity or complexity into manageable and well-organized tasks and workstreams.
• Provides accurate rough order-of-magnitude and detailed estimates for large projects; provides supporting evidence.
• Manages retirement of technical debt, and often identifies opportunities to do so.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• 9 years of experience.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Solid communication skills.
• Performance oriented mindset.
• Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Must-have experience in the following:
  • SQL
  • Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse
  • Performance Tuning and Optimization
  • Data Modeling, ETL pipeline
  • Azure SQL Administration, including security
  • Powershell
  • Power BI

• Nice to have:
  • Ability to own well scoped projects and implement them.
  • Experience in Azure Cosmos, DevOps, Functions.
  • A passion for databases and an understanding that solutions you implement will affect our entire suite of applications.
  • Experience with big data.
  • Experience with Git.
  • Experience with Agile.
  • Mongo Atlas experience.

Reports to: Manager, Software Development

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical & Accidental Insurance
• All Purpose Leave (casual & sick time): 12 days
• Earned Leave: 15 days
• Public Holiday: 12 days
• Generous Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Quarterly Wellness Day
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work From Home Allowance
• Referral Bonus Program
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