Director of Data Engineering, Crux Informatics
£115-160k
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External data automation platform
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External data automation platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£115-160k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate data integrations from external sources by removing the data engineering, operations, and wrangling obstacles.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in software development within a SaaS environment
- 5+ years experience managing geographically dispersed teams of software or data engineers
- Proven experience in a leadership role within data engineering or a related field
- Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a team to deliver high-quality results
- Strong knowledge of data architecture, data modeling, and data management principles
- Proficiency in database technologies, ETL processes, and data integration
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with at least one cloud platform, preferably GCP
- Knowledge and hands-on expertise in data lake architectures, distributed computing, and data modeling for relational and non-relational data stores
- Prior hands-on experience using a workflow orchestration system like Apache Airflow at scale
- Experience with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Azure Synapse, and Google BigQuery
- Hands-on coding proficiency in modern Python, Java, SQL, JSON, and YAML
- K8s and Docker container experience is an advantage
- Exposure to knowledge graphs and graph databases is a huge plus
- Sense of ownership and responsibility, with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Our team brings together technology experts, industry veterans, and entrepreneurial builders connected by our common goal: to build technology solutions that simplify major data bottlenecks
What the job involves
- Own the development and maintenance of data pipelines, ETL processes, and data workflows, at scale
- Mentor and lead multiple high-performing data engineers
- Provide strategic direction and leadership to the data engineering team
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Crux’s data engineering methodology
- Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment, encouraging continuous learning and professional development
- Develop and communicate a clear vision for the data engineering function within the organization
- Collaborate with other teams to understand business requirements and translate them into effective data solutions
- Conduct performance evaluations and support professional growth for team members
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data science, data operations, platform engineering, sales, and go-to-market teams, to ensure timely and predictable delivery of data products
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand their data needs and deliver solutions that drive business objectives
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in data engineering
- Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies to enhance the organization's data capabilities
- Develop and execute project plans, ensuring timely delivery of data solutions
- Manage resources, budgets, and timelines for data engineering projects
- Interface with Crux’s clients and perform the role of a Customer Success Manager
- Demonstrate flexibility and a dynamic personality with the ability to switch contexts when working on various client initiatives, including pre-sales partnerships, post-sales customer success, onboarding new customers, and integrating new datasets using Crux’s proprietary platform
- Knowledge of working with investment data, preferably in the Asset Management industry, would be a huge plus
- May be required to be available for L2/L3 production support escalation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Data delivery operations can be ineffective and complex, making effective management and integration of external data difficult to achieve. Crux Informatics' cloud-based data integration and operations platform solves this problem, by automating external data integration, transformation, and observability.
Crux's tools accelerate the value realization between external and internal data, which has understandably proven popular among businesses of all kinds. By using the platform, businesses can get quality data when and where they need it, reduce management times for external data, and hence free up their teams to focus on higher-value tasks.
Although Crux Informatics faces strong competition in the data integration market, it has displayed steady growth and cemented itself in the space by a series of partnerships with the likes of Amazon Web Services. The significant funding raised by the company will help it to scale up operations, towards meeting a new wave of demand for its platform in the increasingly data-first business world.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2023
$50m
SERIES B
Dec 2020
$55m
LATE VC
Total funding: $146m
Company benefits
- Flexible time off including vacation, sick leave, and volunteer time off
- Robust & inclusive parental leave policy for birthing, non-birthing, adoptive & foster parents
- Fully remote work from anywhere in the world
- Stock options
- Pre and post-tax retirement benefits
- Comprehensive insurance options, including no-cost options for medical, dental & vision coverage
- Employee referral bonus program - $4,000 bonus for every successful referral
- Scheduled team building events & monthly virtual activities
- Monthly phone & internet reimbursement
- One-time $250 budget for office supplies
- Bi-annual giving opportunities
- Fundraising & volunteer opportunities made available throughout the year
- Welcome swag for new hires
Company values
- Integration at scale: The Crux Deliver platform is unmatched in scale, agility, and capabilities when it comes to pipeline building, customization, and maintenance.
- Take ownership: We own outcomes, innovate, and deliver results.
- Focused innovation & execution: We know when and how to say no.
- One team: We are resilient and here to win.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Will Freiberg
(CEO, not founder)Was an M&A Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and was a Senior Associate at Gunderson Dettmer, as well as President & COO of Mesosphere.
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