Velir is looking to augment its internal capabilities to effectively manage and leverage client data by hiring Staff Data Engineers who will work closely with functional leadership and data solutions team members to understand common client business needs and requirements to identify and develop data engineering solutions.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer or related role, with a focus on designing and developing data pipelines.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Deep knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/ELT processes.
- Expert proficiency with the common data integration / orchestration platforms Apache Airflow OR Dagster
- Deep experience with at least one cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar).
- Strong experience with at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience mentoring and advising other engineers.
Responsibilities
- You are responsible for bridging technical gaps to lead and oversee various data engineering projects for our data solutions engagements.
- Partners closely with the data solutions team and functional managers/directors during the client discovery process to understand the organization and specifically what the business is trying to achieve so that we can identify the optimal approach for their needs.
- Mentors and helps others grow in the field of data engineering.
- Consistently demonstrates engineering expertise and is most highly skilled in one or more technical or business domains.
- Leads, works on and executes inter-disciplinary and cross-functional projects.
- Promotes a culture where reliability, observability and scalability are part of building any new and contributing to existing client systems.
- Asks insightful questions to gather requirements and align expectations on what success looks like for a workstream / project.
Other
- You are responsible for being interpersonal force multipliers across the organization, augmenting our internal capabilities to effectively manage and leverage client data effectively.
- Staff Engineers work closely with functional leadership and data solutions team members to understand common client business needs and requirements to identify and develop data engineering solutions to meet those needs.
- Because our clients are mostly US-based organizations, we look for the ability to communicate with professional proficiency in English, verbally and in writing.
- Represents the organization in local meetups, national and international conferences by speaking or other arrangements.
- Ability to define, explain, and sell long-term vision for technical architecture, technical approaches / procedures, etc.
