Lead Data Engineer

LendingClub • San Francisco, CA

101d • $175,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Our mission at LendingClub is to empower those who strive to achieve better financial health. The Big Data Analytics Platform team plays a crucial role in achieving our mission. We are seeking a Lead Data Analyst for our Analytics Platform to help onboard customers onto our warehouse and data marts. In our data and analytics team you will have the opportunity to understand business use cases and help them map these to our modern data and analytics stack. We have PB scale data and intend to provide lead edge products. You will enable our business teams to leverage modern cloud native stack to take business decisions to enable LendingClub to be a data driven company.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience and bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field; or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of solid professional experience as a data analyst using data warehouses, and marts.
• 7+ years of solid production quality data analyst (SQL) helping business be data driven.
• In-depth working experience of distributed systems distributed database with cloud experience.
• Working with Spark, Hive, Kafka, Airflow is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with Snowflake is a plus.
• 6+ years of experience with OLTP and OLAP use cases at scale.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Familiar with Agile methodology, test-driven development, source control management and automated testing.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• Experience with technical leadership of products and teams.

Nice To Haves

• Passionate about Big Data Analytics, Cloud, and transforming business to be data driven.
• Excellent listening skills and empathetic to others.
• Belief in simple and elegant solutions and give paramount importance to quality.
• Passionate with good understanding of data, with a focus on having fun, while delivering incredible business results.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with business teams to help them start to use our modern data and analytics stack.
• Work with business analysts to help them query data on an ad-hoc basis.
• Analyze the data warehouse and marts to enable business to be data driven by helping them discover new insights.
• Understand LendingClub’s data usage, and deliver optimal data analysis.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, reduce Cloud cost, etc.
• Work with stakeholders including the Business, Product, Program and Engineering teams to deliver required data in time with high quality at reasonable cost.
• Work with technologies such as Snowflake, Tableau, Spark, Kafka, Presto etc. and cloud technologies across AWS stack.
• Implement processes to validate and monitor data quality and support operations to manage the production environment and lead in resolving production issues with RCA.
• Identify, design, and implement automated processes, optimizing analytics, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
• Work closely with Quality Engineers, and lead products across all data use cases.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their families.
• 401(k) match.
• Health and wellness programs.
• Flexible time off policies for salaried employees.
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees