Lead Staff Data Engineer, DAT
$160-184k
+Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
1-5 days a week in office
Truckload freight marketplace
Open for applications
Truckload freight marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-184k
+Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver actionable information and solutions that help customers succeed.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
- 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
- You are a strong data engineer having worked with DBT, Snowflake, Kafka, cloud based services (AWS S3, EMR, Glue)
- You bring hands-on experience in creating and managing an enterprise-scale Data Platform, while setting best practices for development teams, including security, privacy, monitoring & alerting, and CI/CD (ideally, AWS, Terraform, MySQL, Airflow, Tableau, Oracle, Snowflake)
- Leverage data to prioritize your work and to influence others
- Willing to implement change and improvements when seeing an opportunity
- Experience building and operating large scale, distributed systems
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development and technology management life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations; Agile a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Interest in continuous learning and improvement
What the job involves
- As a Staff Data Engineer - Lead, you will be responsible for developing data engineering patterns and practices within the organization and in the team
- You will support us in designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure, with special focus on reusability, availability and scalability in AWS
- You will have the opportunity to work on challenging platform and data-related problems and to have a measurable impact on the organization
- Designing and building the evolution of data as a product including coordination across multiple systems, data privacy, data quality, and discoverability while introducing new ideas, patterns and technologies in support of our customers and internal stakeholders
- Supporting us with evolving our data platform architecture
- Knowledgeable of implementing known patterns and their impact to a data platform, such as Event Driven, CQRS, event sourcing, Saga pattern, etc
- Developing, documenting and communicating methods and processes to be utilized within our existing and future technology stack (DBT, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, Traditional ETL)
- In depth knowledge of AWS
- Experience with DW modeling (kimball, inmon, data vault and concepts such as data mesh)
- Providing solutions for complex business problems, enabling insights that can empower better decision-making
- Provide technical leadership within the team and cross functionally
- Develops strong working relationships with other leaders in the information technology organization by providing continuous assistance, technical acumen and thought leadership
- Collaborating with senior leadership on strategic data projects
- Takes an active role in fostering a culture of learning and excellence
Application process
- Job Application Deadline: 11/29/2024
Our take
DAT Freight & Analytics operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America, its platform deploys freight-matching and analytics solutions to companies all across the freight logistics industry. The company enables businesses to optimize their freight operations, while also delivering unparalleled data insights and pricing power over a hyper-dynamic marketplace.
The company derives its data from 500 million freight matches powered by its platform and its database of $137 billion in annual market transactions to provide transportation brokers, carriers, industry analysts, and new organizations with clear and actionable insights into market trends and data analytics.
Having been a market leader for over 40 years, the company has grown from being a single bulletin board at a gas station in Oregon to seeing its technology deployed to millions of end users. DAT has been consistently focused on R&D and is set to further its position in the market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
- Up to 20 days of paid time off starting in year one
- An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
- 401k matching (immediately vested)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Short- and Long-term disability & sick leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Free TriMet transit pass
- Hybrid Work Environment
Company values
- Act with Integrity
- Execute with Excellence
- Deliver Customer Value
- Grow & Evolve
- Together We Thrive
Company HQ
Denver Tech Center, Greenwood Village, CO
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Leadership
Satish Maripuri
(CEO & President, not founder)Group Executive of DAT's parent company, Roper Technologies. Former Executive VP & General Manager at Nuance Communications, and COO of Lionbridge.
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