Staff Data Engineer

Forterra • Arlington, VA

3d • $145,000 - $175,000

About The Position

The Forterra Data Team is seeking an experienced Staff Data Engineer to support the implementation and development of data pipelines, the data warehouse, and other key components of the data platform. In this role, you will be instrumental in building the data foundation that enables insights for developing a best-in-class ecosystem of autonomy products

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics engineering roles.
• Expert SQL knowledge and Python proficiency.
• Experience with the modern data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc), data transformation, and orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding of software engineering best practices including version control, CI/CD pipelines, code review processes, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of MLOps and experience with implementation of AI/ML technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Big Data/IoT Data experience.
• Experience working with unstructured data.
• Experience working with GovCloud and FedRamp

Responsibilities

• Build and orchestrate pipelines for ingestion and transformation of data collected from Forterra's vehicles and internal systems.
• Design, build, and maintain our enterprise data warehouse on Snowflake, ensuring optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
• Gather requirements from both technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver end-to-end data products.
• Support user and role provisioning, implement RBAC policies, support audits and conduct user access reviews.
• Establish data modeling standards and data governance frameworks, creating dimension and fact tables that serve analytics, machine learning, and reporting use cases.
• Implement data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, tests, and alerting.
• Document definitions, metrics, and KPIs and assist in the development of a data dictionary.

Benefits

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
• A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
• A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level