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Tech Lead Data Engineer - Enterprise Cloud Data Warehouse
Southwest Airlines - Dallas, TX
posted 11 days ago
About the position
Southwest Airlines promises to provide Employees with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. The Tech Lead Data Engineer is responsible for one or more project Teams of data engineers, overseeing all stages of design and development for complex, secure, and performant data solutions and models, including design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration of structured and unstructured data. This role will apply an Agile approach to data science and work closely with our Team of analysts, technical product owners, and data scientists to drive real business value. The Tech Lead Data Engineer is a detail-orientated thinker who looks forward to working with a high-performing Team in a dynamic environment. This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in an approved remote location, away from our Corporate Campus.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the big data platform
- Design, build, implement, document and automate ingestion (real time and batch), enrichment and analytics data pipelines using big data tools and technologies
- Assemble large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
- Identify, design and implement internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
- Build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies
- Implement Big Data Solutions as a hands-on Technical Lead
- Process & ingest high volumes of data & transactions with full Life Cycle Implementation(s) of Scalable Big Data & Data Lake solutions
- Build analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition
- Work with stakeholders including data, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues
- Generate or adapt equipment and technology to serve user needs
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent formal training
- Expert level experience in building and optimizing data sets, 'big data' data pipelines and architectures
- Performing root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions
- Excellent analytic skills associated with working on unstructured datasets
- Building processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with the SAFe model
- Experience in AWS Cloud (S3, Redshift, Hudi, EMR, Lamdas, Glue, etc.), Python, Strong SQL, ETL/ELT, Data Warehousing, Teradata, etc.
Benefits
- Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)
- Southwest will help fund your Retirement Savings Plan with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings
- Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit
- Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets)
- Health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment
