What you'll do:

· Define and shape the overall data strategies/Roadmap and their impact on applications and system architecture.

· Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as is growing all teams at a record pace

· Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development

· Conduct design & code reviews and raise the bar on engineering rigor and standards

· Set standards and guidelines for evolving development practices. Drive the focus on scalability, resiliency, high availability and performance of application

· Evangelize tools, stack and the use of data to drive decision making across the company and at different levels

· Partner with engineering teams to optimize data architecture and technical implementations

· Work in an agile development environment, collaborating with application development, architecture teams, engineering and product managers

· Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholder across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization

· Contribute to intellectual property through patents

 

What you'll need:

· 10+ years of experience in data warehousing/Big data design, data integration, data engineering, architecture, analytics engineering or related field

· 10+ years of experience leading and developing large scale projects and initiatives

· Strong working knowledge of modern data stack:

· Cloud Data Warehouse such as Snowflake, Redshift or BigQuery

· SQL expertise and the ability to work with many different database types. Vertica, Snowflake, Postgres, SQL Server, and others as required

· ETL/ELT

· Data replication and data streaming

· Fluent in SQL and strong knowledge/proven expertise with at least one modern programming language such as Python, Java or object oriented programming

· Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse, talented team

· Ability to balance your time between being a hands-on engineer writing code, creating Framework structure for team or debugging tricky issues and define and execute the company’s data strategy

· Knowledge of professional software and engineering practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

· Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, high performing, fault-tolerant, highly available systems for large enterprises

· Strong background with modern tools and environments (e.g., JSON 3.0 API spec, web services, version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools)

· Strong expert experience in cloud native AWS technology stack (EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, API Gateways, etc..) and service-oriented architecture

· Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

· Experience in communicating software product features, technical designs & product strategy with users, other technical teams, and senior management

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong analytical skills, and ability to deal with ambiguity in a rapidly evolving business environment

· Have deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce

· Masters in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience