[Hiring] Principal, Data Engineer @DEPT®

Role Description

We are looking for a well-rounded, flexible Data Engineer with an interest in translating business goals into concrete solutions. You’ve been part of more than one team, you’ve demonstrated initiative on most of your projects, and you can tell us in technical detail what you did to help. Ideally you’ve worked with at least one devops team, and in at least one flavor of agile. If you haven’t we won’t hold that against you. At DEPT®, we pride ourselves on our pragmatic, engineering approach to making data work for the business.

Qualifications

• Expertise across multiple technical and functional domains to identify and execute optimal technical solutions.
• Ability to understand design decisions and articulate the tradeoffs made.
• Aware of industry trends and how they affect our work, introducing new ideas into current workflows.
• Offer advice and opinions for technical decisions affecting multiple clients/projects or the entire company.
• Communicate context, recommendations, and rationale to relevant internal and/or external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate the ability to question and ensure that work maximizes client value delivery.
• Synthesize input from various team members to drive to a solution.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in several of the following:
• Pipeline management tools like Airflow or Luigi, and/or enterprise ETL tools like Informatica, SSIS, or Datastage.
• Scripting languages like Python, Ruby.
• Compiled languages like Java, Scala, C++.
• Database Management Systems like Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, mySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Redshift, MongoDB.
• Experience with Scala, Kafka, and MongoDB is a plus.
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or GCP) is a plus.
• Experience with Unix-based OSes is a plus.
• 5+ years of discovery and assessment of a client’s portfolio, tools, and applications.
• 3+ years of professional software and consulting experience.
• Experience managing smaller project teams.
• Experience with data governance, observability, and quality frameworks.
• Ability to take a project from RFP/SOW/BRD to delivery: project management, requirements gathering, data architecture, workflow management, quality assurance, reporting and visualization, presentation.
• Interest in mentoring junior colleagues on process, analysis, deliverables, client.

Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• 401k plan, plus matching.
• PTO.
• Paid Company Holidays.
• Parental Leave.

Company Description

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI.