Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and coach a team of six Data Engineering professionals, fostering a collaborative environment.
- Ensure team has measurable SMART goals (OKRs) and understands how these goals impact our company goals and strategies; hold yourself and team accountable for performance against these goals.
- Own workload management for the Data Engineering team, including intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and metrics.
- Own successful outcome and positive impact for critical large scale data engineering projects including project management, resource management and communication.
- Mitigate risks and clear blockers.
- Collaborate cross functionally to drive initiatives.
- Own team performance against established SLAs, including visibility into SLA adherence over time.
- Establish and provide visibility for metrics that will identify bottlenecks or other improvement opportunities.
- Own proactive communication of the team’s goals and accomplishments.
- Work closely with technical data engineering leads to establish a data engineering roadmap.
- Drive stakeholder alignment on roadmap and prioritization.
- Identify dependencies for successful completion of roadmap, coordinate with stakeholders to ensure dependencies are reflected on appropriate roadmaps.
- Tie company objectives back to team roadmap.
Requirements
- Leadership Abilities: You possess strong leadership skills; you take satisfaction in supporting a team to achieve great things. You are able to keep a team focused on the most important things.
- Project Management Expertise: You are skilled at breaking down large, sometimes ambiguous projects into milestones, keeping the team on track, and providing visibility into progress to stakeholders.
- Data Engineering Expertise: You have hands-on experience designing, building and testing data pipelines. You are familiar with Data Engineering best practices, processes and standards.
- Data Architecture Experience: You are comfortable with data architecture and patterns for both structured and unstructured data.
- Communication: You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You excel at cross functional coordination and are able to build consensus. You would describe yourself as a good listener and are enthusiastic to learn from others.
- Value Creation: You understand business needs, users, technology, and data, and collaborate with stakeholders to design and deliver data solutions that provide business value.
- Problem-Solving: You demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying issues and implementing effective solutions.
- 5+ years experience as a Data Engineer.
- 3+ years experience as a people manager.
- Proficiency at successfully managing large scale data engineering projects.
- Hands on experience building data pipelines within a structured deployment environment.
- Experience with Agile project management.
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure.
- Understanding of data modeling principles.
- Experience working with time series data.
- Experience with Databricks.
- Experience with RDS.
- Understanding of challenges and best practices working with IoT data.
- Experience directly working with IoT Data Pipelines.
- Experience creating a medallion structure data warehouse.
- Knowledge of Data Governance and Security.
- Experience with Salesforce.
- Comfortable with object oriented programming languages such as Python.
- Comfortable with SQL.
Nice to Have
- Renewable Energy Industry experience.
- Familiarity with distributed systems like Spark, Kafka and data lakes.
Benefits
- Family medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) administration and $1k match per year
- Thoughtful paid time off
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all FTE employees (birthing and non-birthing) after 1 year
- Four-week paid sabbatical leave after four years
- Competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, bonuses and long-term stock options for every employee
- Company-wide slack channels such as #puppiesandpets, #omnidian-wellness, #praiseandbooms and #sustainablefuture
- Affinity groups to help employees feel seen and supported, such as Rainbow Array, BIPOC, Thriving Survivors, Vets at Omnidian, Black Lights Matter and Neurospicy R Us
- Mentorship and investment in employees and prioritize them for future opportunities
- Up to $500 in annual learning reimbursement for courses, certifications, or conferences
Additional Information
- Most of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotely.
- If you are in the Seattle area, we offer a vibrant office space in the historic and beautiful Smith Tower, in the heart of Pioneer Square.
- We prioritize applicants near one of our employee clusters and offer one or more local gatherings per year.
