Principal, Data Engineer

DEPT®

3h•Remote

About The Position

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, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA. We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sht done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter. At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build. The Role: 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.

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
7+ years of experience in several of the following: Scripting languages like Python, Ruby
7+ years of experience in several of the following: Compiled languages like Java, Scala, C++
7+ years of experience in several of the following: Database Management Systems like Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, mySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Redshift, MongoDB
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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Expertise across multiple technical and functional domains in order to identify and execute optimal technical solutions in a variety of internal/client situations.
Understand design decisions and articulate the tradeoffs made.
Be aware of industry trends and how they affect our work and introduce new ideas into our current workflow.
Offer advice and opinions for technical decisions that affect multiple clients/projects or the entire company.
Communicate context, recommendations, and rationale to relevant internal and/or external stakeholders to drive towards buy-in.
Demonstrate the ability to take a step back and question/ensure that work proposed/being done is maximizing client value delivery.
Synthesize input from various team members to drive to a solution.
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.