Principal Data Engineer - Data Platform

We have an opening for a Principal Data Engineer at Constant Contact. As a senior member of the Data Platform team, you will play a key role in determining the technical vision for the data pipeline management domain space. You will also work on enterprise or business unit-wide product features, determining the overall architecture to achieve the features. The ideal candidate will be technically strong, highly productive, and enjoy collaborating.

Explore new technologies, architect, and design end-to-end features and solutions across multiple development teams within the Constant Contact Product Delivery organization

Support all architectural disciplines and champion architectural initiatives; Develop standards and implementation plans for the enterprise based on business requirements and strategies

Provide leadership, technology guidance, and mentors others; develop, motivate, and direct staff to create a team environment

Lead technical design activities across multiple teams and ensure all technical hurdles are resolved to help teams deliver high quality product roadmap initiatives

Be an active participant in the scrum team

Work with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy through firm data

Work to modernize our technology stack across multiple teams, languages and technologies

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience and a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Extensive knowledge of design patterns, principles, distributed architectures, data pipelines, data structures and algorithms with emphasis on memory, runtime, quality and scalability
• Proven ability to design and develop future-proof, maintainable, large scale systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment; Ability to articulate engineering design strategies related to scalability, performance, security, usability, and development platforms
• Expert knowledge of Spark, EMR, ElasticSearch, streaming technologies (Kinesis) and similar frameworks
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, Java (Spring Boot and/or Micronaut), Groovy
• Experience in developing applications for AWS ecosystem including - EMR, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, API Gateway, Lambda, OpenSearch, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, S3, DynamoDB, QuickSight, IAM, etc
• Experience with unit testing and test driven development in Python, Java and JavaScript
• Experience with modern containers and CI/CD frameworks - Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, ECS, GKE, etc
• Have a complete view of the DevSecOps software development lifecycle. Architecting not only the code, but the pipelines, operations and quality strategy for software
• Knowledge in Apache projects: Nifi, Hudi, Presto, Superset, Flink

• Competitive salary range of $155,200-$194,000 USD
• Health and welfare benefits including paid leave
• Culture of diversity and inclusion
• Programs and educational opportunities for employees
• Opportunities for career growth and development
• Generous paid time off policy
• Hybrid work model with flexibility and access to office locations
• COVID-19 vaccination requirement for new hires
• Equal opportunity employer
• Internal talent acquisition department for job opportunities