Director of Database and Data Engineering, BlackLine

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience in engineering, and cutting-edge product development
• Experience in managing managers, with at least 4 years of experience managing geographically distributed teams of data engineers and software engineers
• Experience leading in a highly cross-functional environment in collaboration with Engineering, Product Management, Operations and Architects
• Strong knowledge of relational database systems (especially PostgreSQL and SQL server), schema design, information architecture, internal objects, database optimization and turning.
• Advanced understanding of OLTP and OLAP environments for high volume transactions
• Experience in designing data models using techniques such as 3NF, object-relational, entity-relationship, or dimensional modeling
• Strong hands-on experience in technology leadership of conceptualizing, building, and enhancing large scale, secure, reliable data platforms using Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Delta Lake, HUDI, Presto, Druid, Big Query, and Kafka
• Previous work-experience in using managed database services, such as, RDS, CloudSQL or Azure SQL/Postgres
• Deep knowledge around problems and solutions for highly scalable distributed systems, storage, transactions, and query processing
• Ability to look “under the hood” to find bottlenecks in the design/architecture and innovate
• Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development, and mentoring
• Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices, including Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Recent experience working with monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning across all layers of a modern SaaS, N-Tier, web-based application
• Strong understanding of business management, financial, and leadership principles
• Committed to providing exceptional service to customers and support to staff members

Desirable

• As Director of Data Engineering, you will be responsible for driving forward the vision, architecture, design, and implementation of BlackLine high-volume transactional databases, OLTP modeling, database optimizations & tuning, and data platform to support our large scale, cloud-based, SaaS web and mobile applications.
• The data platform spans across Big Data, Streaming, Reporting and Analytics. The data management includes large scale customer data ingestion, transactional data, master data and data warehousing
• You’ll lead, inspire, and grow talented individuals while working closely with Developers, Architects, Product Managers and Operations.
• The ideal candidate will have strong data infrastructure and data architecture skills, a proven track record of leading and scaling data teams, strong operational skills to drive efficiency and speed, solid project management leadership, and a strong vision for how Data Engineering can scale a global SaaS platform
• If you don't just see management as the next logical step, but are a passionate, driven technical leader, then you can be a great fit for our team
• Overseeing design, development, and operations of high-performance, massively scalable, always-available Cloud-based data platform to support BlackLine SaaS
• Creating a unified architecture for batch, real time and streaming data ingestion, transformation, cleansing, enrichment, transaction processing, reporting and analytics
• Developing inherently secure, reliable, scalable, and modular access to Data
• Driving visibility on key data engineering performance, throughput, availability, and customer satisfaction metrics
• Continually improving data platform architecture, data modeling and data governance to match the growth of the business
• Leading, inspiring, and growing a globally distributed team of talented engineers while aligning tightly with architects, software engineers, product managers, and operations
• Defining and driving a unifying vision for teams and their projects, processes, workflows, and related areas through motivation, consensus building and leading change
• Planning and managing timely delivery of high-quality releases while keeping the stakeholders informed
• Contributing to design reviews, code reviews and hands-on work in your respective domain
• On call for handling production releases and incidents, as needed
• Other duties as assigned